Artist Quotes

Artists have amazing livesthey travel, meet interesting people, observe the world around them, and usually
have big opinions. Can you match the artist to their correct quote? For an extra challenge, write the art
movement each person is associated with.
Salvador Dali
Pablo Picasso
Piet Mondrian
Henri Matisse

Leonardo da Vinci
Wayne Thiebaud
Claude Monet
Andy Warhol

Georgia OKeeffe
Marc Chagall
Vincent Van Gogh

_________________________ Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow
spot into the sun.
_________________________ I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
_________________________ Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.
_________________________ If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost
nothing.
__________________________ I dont do drugs. I am drugs.
_________________________ I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldnt say any other
waythings I had no words for.
___________________________Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.
___________________________ I havent the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of
which you have to prove.
___________________________Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
___________________________ I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
___________________________Curves are so emotional.
___________________________ The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.
___________________________ I dont paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
___________________________ Art is never finished, only abandoned.
___________________________God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the
cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
___________________________Art is not delivered like the morning paper, it has to be stolen from Mount
Olympus.
__________________________ It is not important to make many pictures but that I have one picture right.

__________________________ In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.

___________________________I didnt become an Impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have
been one.
___________________________ Ive been absolutely terrified every moment of my lifeand Ive never let it
keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
___________________________I wouldnt mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
___________________________A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
___________________________Have no fear of perfectionyoull never reach it.
___________________________They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them
yourself.
____________________________Creativity takes courage.
___________________________The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
___________________________If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint,
and that voice will be silenced.
___________________________ Color is my day-long obsession, joy, and torment.
____________________________The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
____________________________A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
____________________________Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small it takes time. We havent the
time, and to see takes timelike to have a friend takes time.
____________________________ I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.
___________________________ I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes thats the whole joy. If you could
just do it, thered be no point in doing it.