While not everyone is interested in the arts, everyone can appreciate it
Whether you are admiring Warhol’s Campbell Soup, basking in the utter brilliance of Michelangelo’s David or even watching your 5 year old color outside the lines, there is no doubt that art plays a critical part in our lives
While many of the artists we know of get a bad rap for being crazy, socially retarded, or simply weird, the fact is that even if they are busy cutting off a part of their ear for their girlfriend, they still had a lot of insight into the human mind, especially the areas of creativity
Here are 10 quotes by famous artists that might make you disrobe for the next person looking for a model
I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Vincent Van Gogh
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
Leonardo da Vinci
Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.
Henri Matisse
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.
Michelangelo
An empty canvas is a living wonder.. far lovelier than certain pictures.
Kandinsky
Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.
Rembrandt
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
Edward Hopper
I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it’s important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.
Keith Haring
Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
