Motivational Artist Quotes & Sayings

The artist has the master picture in his mind, before he begins to paint. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Success involves failing first. Ask any successful person. Ask any experienced person, really. It's all part of the creative process, so sit back and allow the artist within you to sprout, blossom and flourish. You must accept that your first, second, and third attempt at something might suck. It's a necessary step in improving your skill. Failure is your teacher, not your judge. — Connor Franta

If you plan to be an artist you need to learn how to take criticism and stand up for your work. If you don't love it, no one will. — Jen Frederick

I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together. If people don't like that, then tough titty, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal; they don't do homages. — Quentin Tarantino

The biggest and first obstacle any artist faces is not believing they can do something. You have the talent. Just believe you are capable of doing it, because you are. Writing anything, for anyone, regardless of expertise, is like crossing the Atlantic in a canoe. What you are doing is saying "I don't know how to row". Start rowing, you will get there. Just know it will take time and perseverance, but you will get there! — Aaron Denius Garcia

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. — Pablo Picasso

When you judge your art with number of likes you get in response to it, you're killing the artist within, and giving rise to an entertainer. — Sameer Khan

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar. — Andrei Tarkovsky

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The mind of an artist never sleeps, because dreaming is when they do their best work. — Mark W. Boyer

All artists yearn to struggle, when they struggle they know they're alive. — John Maeda

Stop following the con artists, instead become the greatest and brightest artist ever to exist and let others follow your light instead — Yolanda De Iuliis

The writer is the cursed artist of the soul. The expression of his art is a reflection of his quest to understand man by unraveling the mysteries that have been haunting humankind from time immemorial. In the end of his journey to understand man, the writer becomes more human even though his soul ends up finding less peace. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

I love people who choose to surprise the sad ones, Just to make them smile! — Artist Lisa May