Top 200 Artist Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint.”

— Bob Ross

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Enjoy Life Quotes, Art Quotes

2. “I’m not perfect. But I’ll always be real.”

— Tupac Shakur

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Be Yourself Quotes, Real Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes

3. “Don’t worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright.”

— Bob Marley

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Music Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

4. “The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Creative Quotes, Art Quotes

5. “I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

— Pablo Picasso

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Learning Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes

6. “Only God can judge me.”

— Tupac Shakur

Also featured in: Hard Hitting Quotes, Judging Quotes

7. “If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”

— Vincent van Gogh

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Quotes About Trying, Challenges Quotes

8. “Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”

— Michelangelo

Also featured in: Creative Quotes, Art Quotes, Genius Quotes

9. “Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake up and live!”

— Bob Marley

Also featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Being Happy Quotes

10. “I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”

— Vincent van Gogh

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Passion Quotes, Challenges Quotes, Depression Quotes

11. “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”

— Vincent van Gogh

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Helping Quotes

12. “Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”

— Pablo Picasso

Also featured in: Aesthetic Quotes, Simplicity Quotes, Art Quotes

13. “How many roads must a man walk down, Before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail, Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, and how many times must the cannon balls fly, Before they’re forever banned?”

— Bob Dylan

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Quotes About the Sea

14. “Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.”

— Ariana Grande

Also featured in: Self-Love Quotes, Be Yourself Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Cute Quotes, Positive Quotes for Women

15. “I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There’s no stopping. I didn’t create the fame, the fame created me.”

— Lady Gaga

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Women, Passion Quotes, Grind Quotes, Personal Branding Quotes

16. “Drop it like it’s hot.”

— Snoop Dogg

Also featured in: Crazy Quotes, Quotes About Songs, Short Funny Quotes, Sexy Quotes

17. “Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Also featured in: Painting Quotes, Distance Quotes

18. “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”

— Bob Marley

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Quality Quotes

19. “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”

— Frank Zappa

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Progress Quotes, Innovation Quotes

20. “The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Painting Quotes

21. “Art is my life and my life is art.”

— Yoko Ono

Also featured in: Aesthetic Quotes, Culture Quotes, Art Quotes

22. “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”

— Vincent van Gogh

Also featured in: Feel Good Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Nature Quotes, Beauty Quotes

23. “Music is the strongest form of magic.”

— Marilyn Manson

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Performance Quotes, Short Deep Quotes

24. “A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”

— Leopold Stokowski

Also featured in: Music Quotes

25. “A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”

— Bob Dylan

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Choices Quotes

26. “I know who I am, I know what I believe, that’s all I need to know. From there, you do what you need to do.”

— Will Smith

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Identity Quotes, Empowerment Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes

27. “Genius is eternal patience. ”

— Michelangelo

Also featured in: Patience Quotes, Short Positive Quotes, Deep Quotes, Genius Quotes

28. “It’s weird not to be weird.”

— John Lennon

Also featured in: Be Yourself Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes, Witty Quotes

29. “Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”

— Vincent van Gogh

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life

30. “I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.”

— Vincent van Gogh

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Creativity Quotes

31. “We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.”

— Pablo Picasso

Also featured in: Not Giving Up Quotes, Creative Quotes, Art Quotes

32. “People haven’t always been there for me but music always has.”

— Taylor Swift

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Quotes About Feelings, Quotes About Songs

33. “I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.”

— Salvador Dalí

Also featured in: Crazy Quotes, Creative Quotes, Witty Quotes

34. “Real eyes, realize, real lies...”

— Tupac Shakur

Also featured in: Real Quotes, Liars Quotes

35. “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”

— Auguste Rodin

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Short Quotes About Life

36. “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”

— Vincent van Gogh

Also featured in: Positive Short Quotes

37. “I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection.”

— Drake

Also featured in: Personality Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes, Mistake Quotes

38. “Giving up doesn’t always mean you’re weak. Sometimes you’re just strong enough to let go.”

— Taylor Swift

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

39. “An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”

— Charles Bukowski

40. “I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”

— Vincent van Gogh

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Passion Quotes, Quotes About Trying

41. “I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.”

— Frida Kahlo

Also featured in: Identity Quotes, Strong Women Quotes, Creative Quotes, Individuality Quotes

42. “Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.”

— Bob Marley

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Meaning Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes

43. “What’s meant to be will always find a way.”

— Trisha Yearwood

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Destiny Quotes, Everything Happens For A Reason Quotes

44. “Never believe anyone who tells you that you don't deserve what you want.”

— Taylor Swift

Also featured in: Emotion Quotes, Empowerment Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Quotes About Believing

45. “I believe I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky.”

— R. Kelly

Also featured in: Happy Quotes, Dream Big Quotes, Quotes About Believing

46. “If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.”

— Michelangelo

Also featured in: Excellence Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes, Practice Quotes, Quotes About Skills

47. “Overcome the devils with a thing called love. ”

— Bob Marley

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Peace Quotes

48. “Light up the darkness.”

— Bob Marley

Also featured in: Short Motivational Quotes, Moving Quotes, Quotes About Songs

49. “Being fearless is having a lot of fears, but you jump anyway.”

— Taylor Swift

Also featured in: Mindset Quotes, Overcoming Fear Quotes, Quotes About Trying

50. “Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Aesthetic Quotes