1. “Every child is an artist; the problem is staying an artist when you grow up” – Pablo Picasso

2. “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
– Scott Adams


3. “Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.” – Al Hirschfield

4. “We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.” – Bob Ross

5. “I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.” – Thomas Edison

6. “This world is but a canvas to our imagination.”
 – Henry David Thoreau

7. “Every artist was first an amateur.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. “If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.”
– Anais Nin

9. “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.”
– Twyla Tharp

10. “To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.”
–Georgia O’Keeffe

11. “I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.”
– Barbra Streisand

12. “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
– Emile Zola

13. “Every artist writes his own autobiography.”
– Havelock Ellis

14. “The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.”
– Carl Rogers

15. “An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.”
– Charles Horton Cooley

16. “Great artists suffer for the people.”
– Marvin Gaye

17. “Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.”
– Andre Gide

18. “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” – Pablo Picasso