Inspirational quotes in honor of International Artist Day on October 25th.

In honor of International Artist Day on October 25th, also the Spanish artist's Pablo Picasso's birthday (25 October 1881), I thought I figured I would share fifteen artist quotes that I found inspirational and interesting.

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Artist Quotes

Below are fifteen quotes by artists and about artists that may spark your creative juices:

1. “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” - Pablo Picasso

2. “Every artist was first an amateur.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

4. “I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.” - Criss Jami

5. “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” - Thomas Merton

6. "A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist." - Louis Nizer

7. “I just decided, when someone says you can’t do something. DO MORE OF IT.” - Faith Ringgold

8. “Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.” - Bill Moyers

9. “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

10. “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” - Edgar Degas

11. “I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.” - Jean-Michel Basquiat

12. “Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.” - Donald Woods Winnicott

13. "To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life." - Viggo Mortensen

14. “I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.” - Frida Kahlo

15. "An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's." - J. D. Sallinger

What's Next?

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