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Introduction<\/b><\/h2>\n

\u201cAnd medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.\u201d<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 John Keats, Dead Poets Society<\/span><\/p>\n

It only seems apt to begin this article with quotes on art and creativity, with these unforgettable lines from the movie Dead Poets Society, uttered on screen by a very passionate English teacher played by the delightful Robin Williams. They are memorable because they describe what we already feel deep within ourselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is well known that creative people inspire creativity in others. Therefore, here is a list of quotes by famous personalities that another artist or a creative person needs to come across at least once in their lifetime.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s begin with the first 15 short quotes on art and creativity!\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n
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  1. \u201cEvery child is an artist; the problem is staying an artist when you grow up\u201d \u2013 Pablo Picasso.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. \u201cIf you hear a voice within you say, \u2018You cannot paint,\u2019 then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced\u201d \u2013 Vincent Van Gogh.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. \u201cCreativity takes courage.\u201d \u2013 Henri Matisse<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. \u201cDon\u2019t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it\u2019s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.\u201d \u2013 Andy Warhol<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. \u201cArt is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.\u201d \u2013 Andre Gide<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. \u201cWe don\u2019t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.\u201d \u2013 Bob Ross<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. \u201cPainting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.\u201d \u2013 Leonardo da Vinci<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. \u201cEvery artist was first an amateur.\u201d \u2013 Ralph Waldo Emerson.<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. \u201cThere is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.\u201d \u2013 Vincent Van Gogh<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. \u201cArt washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.\u201d \u2013 Pablo Picasso<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. \u201cColour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.\u201d \u2013 Claude Monet<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. \u201cI found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn\u2019t say any other way \u2013 things I had no words for.\u201d \u2013 Georgia O\u2019Keeffe<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. \u201cI hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.\u201d \u2013 Albrecht D\u00fcrer<\/span><\/li>\n
  14. \u201cArt is not what you see, but what you make others see.\u201d \u2013 Edgar Degas<\/span><\/li>\n
  15. \u201cIn art, what we want is the certainty that one spark of original genius shall not be extinguished.\u201d \u2013 Mary Cassatt<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Here are the following 15 best short quotes on art and creativity for students!<\/b><\/h2>\n
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    1. \u201cA work of art which isn\u2019t based on feeling isn\u2019t art at all.\u201d \u2013 Paul C\u00e9zanne<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. \u201cLife is art. Art is life. I never separate it.\u201d \u2013 Ai Weiwei<\/span><\/li>\n
    3. \u201cCreativity is contagious, pass it on.\u201d \u2013 Albert Einstein<\/span><\/li>\n
    4. \u201cEverybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think each of us is born with creativity.\u201d \u2013 Maya Angelou<\/span><\/li>\n
    5. \u201cHave no fear of perfection, you\u2019ll never reach it.\u201d \u2013 Salvador Dali<\/span><\/li>\n
    6. \u201cYou can\u2019t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.\u201d \u2013 Jack London<\/span><\/li>\n
    7. \u201cImagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.\u201d \u2013 <\/span>George Bernard Shaw<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n
    8. \u201cCreativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that\u2019s easy. What\u2019s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that\u2019s creativity.\u201d \u2013 Charles Mingus<\/span><\/li>\n
    9. \u201cOriginality is nothing but judicious imitation.\u201d \u2013 Voltaire<\/span><\/li>\n
    10. \u201cDon\u2019t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It\u2019s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can\u2019t try to do things. You simply must do things.\u201d \u2013 Ray Bradbury<\/span><\/li>\n
    11. \u201cCreativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn\u2019t do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.\u201d \u2013 Steve Jobs<\/span><\/li>\n
    12. \u201cCreativity is a drug I cannot live without.\u201d \u2013 Cecil B. DeMille<\/span><\/li>\n
    13. \u201cYou see things; and you say, \u2018Why?\u2019 But I dream things that never were; and I say, \u2018Why not\u2019?\u201d \u2013 George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/li>\n
    14. \u201cYou can\u2019t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.\u201d -Maya Angelou<\/span><\/li>\n
    15. \u201cCreativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.\u201d \u2013 Bill Moyers<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      Some more Short Quotes on Art and Creativity\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n
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      1. \u201cPassion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you\u2019re passionate about something, then you\u2019re more willing to take risks.\u201d \u2013 Yo-Yo Ma<\/span><\/li>\n
      2. \u201cCreativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.\u201d \u2013 Earl Nightingale<\/span><\/li>\n
      3. \u201cCreative work is a gift to the world and every being in it. Don\u2019t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you\u2019ve got.\u201d \u2013 Steven Pressfield<\/span><\/li>\n
      4. \u201cCreativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.\u201d \u2013 Scott Adams<\/span><\/li>\n
      5. \u201cArt is the stored honey of the human soul.\u201d \u2013 Theodore Dreiser<\/span><\/li>\n
      6. \u201cPainting is easy when you don\u2019t know how, but tough when you do.\u201d \u2013 Edgar Degas<\/span><\/li>\n
      7. \u201cArt enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.\u201d \u2013 Thomas Merton<\/span><\/li>\n
      8. \u201cI think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.\u201d \u2013 David Rockefeller<\/span><\/li>\n
      9. \u201cTo practice any art, no matter how well or how badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven\u2019s sake. So do it.\u201d \u2013 Kurt Vonnegut<\/span><\/li>\n
      10. \u201cThe one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live only as you can.\u201d \u2013 Neil Gaiman<\/span><\/li>\n
      11. \u201cCreativity comes from a conflict of ideas.\u201d \u2013 Donatella Versace<\/span><\/li>\n
      12. \u201cArt is meant to disturb, science reassures.\u201d \u2013 Georges Braque<\/span><\/li>\n
      13. \u201cIf I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.\u201d \u2013 Edward Hopper<\/span><\/li>\n
      14. \u201cThey always say time changes things, but you have to change them yourself.\u201d \u2013 Andy Warhol<\/span><\/li>\n
      15. \u201cThe position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.\u201d \u2013 Piet Mondrian<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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        15 more Short Quotes on art and creativity for you!\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n
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        1. \u201cThose who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.\u201d \u2013 Salvador Dali<\/span><\/li>\n
        2. \u201cThe job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.\u201d \u2013 Francis Bacon<\/span><\/li>\n
        3. \u201cTo create one\u2019s world takes courage.\u201d \u2013 Georgia O\u2019Keeffe<\/span><\/li>\n
        4. \u201cThe main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.\u201d \u2013 Auguste Rodin<\/span><\/li>\n
        5. \u201cIt is important to express oneself & provide the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.\u201d \u2013 Berthe Morisot<\/span><\/li>\n
        6. \u201cTo be an artist is to believe in life.\u201d \u2013 Henry Moore<\/span><\/li>\n
        7. \u201cEvery good painter paints what he is.\u201d \u2013 Jackson Pollock<\/span><\/li>\n
        8. \u201cIn art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.\u201d \u2013 Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/li>\n
        9. \u201cWhether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.\u201d \u2013 Georgia O\u2019Keeffe<\/span><\/li>\n
        10. \u201cWhat moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.\u201d \u2013 Eugene Delacroix<\/span><\/li>\n
        11. \u201cDon\u2019t be an art critic, but paint, there lies salvation.\u201d \u2013 Paul C\u00e9zanne<\/span><\/li>\n
        12. \u201cIf I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.\u201d \u2013 Marc Chagall<\/span><\/li>\n
        13. \u201cA man paints with his brains and not with his hands.\u201d \u2013 Michelangelo<\/span><\/li>\n
        14. \u201cIt is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.\u201d \u2013 John Saxe<\/span><\/li>\n
        15. \u201cGreat art picks up where nature ends.\u201d \u2013 Marc Chagall<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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          Inspirational Art Quotes\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n
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          1. \u201cA Good artist has less time than ideas.\u201d Martin Kippenberger\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
          2. \u201cI never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my reality.\u201d Frida Kahlo\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
          3. \u201cI paint for myself. I don’t know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.\u201d Francis Bacon<\/span><\/li>\n
          4. \u201cThe longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.\u201d Lucian Freud<\/span><\/li>\n
          5. \u201cThere is no must in art because art is free.\u201d Wassily Kandinsky<\/span><\/li>\n
          6. \u201cPoor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.\u201d Leonardo da Vinci\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
          7. \u201cIf people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.\u201d Michelangelo<\/span><\/li>\n
          8. \u201cNature is not only all that is visible to the eye.. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.\u201d Edvard Munch\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
          9. \u201cPainting is a means of self-enlightenment.\u201d John Olsen<\/span><\/li>\n
          10. \u201cThe holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.\u201d Banksy\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
          11. \u201cArt is the only way to run away without leaving home.\u201d Twyla Tharp\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
          12. \u201cAn artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.\u201d Charles Horton Cooley\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
          13. \u201cThere’s no retirement for an artist, it’s your way of living so there’s no end to it.\u201d Henry Moore\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
          14. \u201cAn artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.\u201d Paul Val\u00e9ry\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
          15. \u201cThe aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.\u201d Aristotle<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            Key Takeaways<\/b><\/h2>\n