100 quotes every artist needs to hear

Who has not ever needed an urgent dose of motivation? The world of art is an unstable world. Today you feel touched by inspiration and tomorrow you find yourself blocked without a miserable idea. Today you have many projects that collapse your life, and tomorrow you will not find any source of financing.

For all this, being an artist requires an unusual spiritual wealth, feeding our spirit is vital to give our best, don't you think? We live in a world dominated (they say) by crises of all types and colors (economic, existential, inspirational ...), they teach us to feed our fears that are the worst enemy of creativity and freedom. Whatever your situation, remember that diamonds are made under a lot of pressure. (Today I am philosophical, why lie).

I recommend that you put the quotes that motivate you the most in your workplace. Here are some that have caught my attention, Enjoy them!

1. Mickey Mouse came out of my mind on a train from Manhattan to Hollywood, at a time when my brother Roy's company and mine were at an all-time low and disaster seemed just around the corner.
2. Don't sleep to rest, sleep to dream. Because dreams are to be fulfilled.
3. A person must set his goals as soon as possible and dedicate all his energy and talent to them.
4. I was never able to convince investors that Disneyland was viable, because dreams have little guarantee.
5. Disneyland will never be finished. It will continue to grow as long as the imagination. WALT DISNEY
6. When I was little my mother told me: if you become a soldier, you will become a general; If you become a priest, you will reach Papa. I wanted to be a painter and I have reached Picasso.
7. But remember, the only person who accompanies you throughout your life is yourself. Stay alive, whatever you do!
8. Painting like the Renaissance painters took me a few years, painting like children took me a lifetime.
9. An artist copies, a great artist steals.
10. The main enemy of creativity is good taste.
11. Art is a lie that brings us closer to the truth. PABLO PICASSO
12. Neither a sublime intelligence, nor a great imagination, nor the two things together make up genius; love, that's the soul of genius.
13. Too much for what it is, too little for what could have been WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART.

14. Take action instead of begging. Sacrifice yourself with no hope of glory or reward! If you want to know the miracles, do them before. Only then can your peculiar destiny be fulfilled.
15. The only symbol of superiority I know of is kindness.
16. The barriers that tell the genius: «You will not pass from here» have not yet been raised.
17. Genius is made up of two percent talent and ninety-eight percent persevering application.
18. I will seize fate by grabbing it by the neck. It won't dominate me. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
19. There is something more important than logic: it is imagination.
20. Give them pleasure, the same pleasure they get when they wake up from a nightmare.
21. Imagine a man sitting on your favorite sofa at home. Below is a bomb ready to explode. He ignores it, but the public knows it. This is suspense.
22. Television has returned crime to its source: home.
23. My love for the cinema is greater than my morals.
24. A good drama is like life, but without the boring parts.  ALFRED HITCHCOCK
25. The madness of one person is the reality of another.
26. Beetlejuice is the only one of all my films that has given me that feeling of fuck the whole world! The public didn't need certain kinds of things; I could do whatever I wanted and that was great.
27. Sure, when I was a kid no one wanted to play with me. And now I come with my movies. TIM BURTON
28. The mind is like a parachute ... It only works if we have it open.
29. Everything should be simplified as much as possible, but not more.
30. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
31. All science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thought.
32. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
33. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again hoping to get different results.
34. You have to learn the rules of the game first, and then play better than anyone else.
35. There is a motive force more powerful than steam, electricity, and atomic energy: the will. ALBERT EINSTEIN
36. We spend too much time making a living, but not enough time living it.
37. We cannot do great things, only small things with great love.
38. Life is an opportunity, take it.
39. Life is an adventure, dare.
40. We must do ordinary things with extraordinary love.
41. Sometimes we feel that what we do is just a drop in the sea, but the sea would be less if it were missing a drop. MARY TERESA OF CALCUTTA.
42. Architecture is the arrangement of light; sculpture is the play of light.
43. The inhabitants of the countries that bathe the Mediterranean feel Beauty with more intensity.
44.  Let each one use the gift that God has given him. The realization of this is the ultimate social perfection.
45.  Sacrifice is the diminution of the self without compensation.
46. When a thing is on the way to perfection, it must be squeezed until it is completely right.
47. Originality should not be sought, as then it is extravagance.
48.  Life is a battle. To fight you need strength and strength is virtue, and this is only sustained with spiritual cultivation.
49. For God, the great is not the dimensional but the perfect.
50. Desperation comes from seeing insurmountable obstacles in the realization of projects that have been cherished for so long.
51. Life is love and love is surrender. When two surrender, the life of the whole becomes brilliant, exemplary.
52. It must be remembered that no one is useless, everyone works, although not everyone has the same ability.
53. Everything comes out of the great book of nature; the works of men are already a printed book.
54. Any work of art must be seductive and if, because it is too original, the quality of seduction is lost, there is no work of art.
55. The closed curve is the limitation, the line is the expression of infinity.
56. To do things well it is necessary: ​​first, love, second, technique.
57. The most important requirement for an object to be considered beautiful is that it fulfills the purpose for which it was intended.
58. My great friends are dead; I have no family, no clients, no fortune, or anything. So I can give myself totally to the Temple (Sagrada Familia). ANTONIO GAUDI
59. We live in a world where we hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.
60. It does not matter that you hide behind a smile and wear beautiful clothes, if you cannot hide something, it is how rotten you are inside.
61. When you do something noble and beautiful and no one notices, don't be sad. Dawn is a beautiful sight and yet most of the audience is still sleeping. JOHN LENNON 
62.  I am not interested in my own personality as the object of a painting, but rather I am interested in other people, especially women, other appearances… I am convinced that as a person I am not particularly interesting.
63. I am a painter who paints day after day from morning to night. Anyone who wants to know something about me should look carefully at my paintings.
64.  Art is a line around your thoughts.
65. Enough of censorship. I will not seek help other than my own
66. All art is erotic.
67. I am quite insensitive to attacks, but it affects me, instead, when a client is not satisfied with my work.
68. For each age its art, to art its freedom.
69. When I paint, one of my greatest feelings of pleasure is the awareness that I am creating gold. GUSTAV KLIMT 
70. Life is not measured by the times you breathe, but by the moments that take your breath away
71. Money and success don't change people; they only magnify what was already there from the beginning.
72. Live the day as if you invented it.
73. Many people spend money they haven't earned buying things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
74. I don't know what my mission is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to look like the most important people who have ever lived
75. Greatness truly exists in all of us
76. There is no reason to have a plan B because it distracts you from plan A. WILL SMITH
77. The world doesn't revolve around the sun, it revolves around a giant cock. That's what the world is about. It's about sex. Anyone who does not want to realize it is deluding himself. People get bored because they have already done everything they can do. So now it is only the fear of death that turns them on. That's why some people have turned me into a kind of sex symbol. My way of dressing is death on wheels.
78. I am nobody like Brad Pitt or Antonio Banderas, but perhaps it is the taboo element of my image, which is almost cadaverous, that attracts them. You should be the last person people should be attracted to.
79. If you believe that an artist can destroy your faith, then your faith is rather fragile. Marilyn Manson 
80. For all the girls who think you are ugly because you are not size zero, you are beautiful, society is the ugly
81. Maybe he didn't stay with me because he was afraid to realize that I loved him as he doesn't know how to love himself
82. I hope that the wait does not wear out my dreams
83. If you let your fears out, you will have more space to live your dreams. MARILYN MONROE
84. My art is based on a single reflection: why am I not like the others?
85. My art gives meaning to my life.
86. Symbolism means that nature is configured by our own state of mind.
87. Art is the heart of the blood.
88. I'm not going to paint any more interiors with men reading and women knitting. I am going to paint the lives of people who breathe, feel, suffer and love.
89. The viewer must become aware of what is sacred in the painting, so that it is discovered before it as in the church. edvard munch 
90. Cannibalism is one of the most obvious manifestations of cuteness.
91. The important thing is that they talk about you, even if it is well.
92. You cannot expel me because I am Surrealism!
93. No way will I go back to Mexico. I can't stand being in a more surreal country than my paintings.
94. I declare the independence of the imagination and the right of man to his own madness.
95. The least that can be asked of a sculpture is that it not move.
96. He who wants to interest others has to provoke them.
97. Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be limiting our vision.
98. The greatest misfortune of today's youth is no longer belonging to it. SALVADOR DALI.
99. Look at your hands, move them and you will realize the power you have. CARLOS DANIEL CRUZ.
100. The best way to predict the future is to create it. PETER DRUCKER.