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Best Picture Quotes: How to Use FREE Public Domain Art

October 13, 2014 by Louise Myers 16 Comments

Best Picture Quotes with FREE Public Domain Art

Making picture quotes?

Then you know it can get time-consuming and/or expensive to continually come up with great backgrounds.

Good news! There’s a source of awesome art you can use: FREE Public Domain Art.

Old Masters art is one category that generally falls in the public domain. I don’t know about you, but I can’t hold a palette knife to these guys! I’m thrilled to be able to use their works, when appropriate. I like putting together picture quotes for artist birthdays, and of course, their artwork is the perfect background.

Finding FREE Public Domain Art for Your Picture Quotes

NOTE: Living artists’ work is generally NOT in the public domain! In the U.S., works published before 1923 are in the public domain, plus lots more complicated rules. But instead of worrying about what is or isn’t OK to use, just search on this awesome site that spells it all out for you, image by image: WikiMedia.

FREE Public Domain Art on WikiMedia

All you need to do is enter your search term in the upper right of the home page. Using Van Gogh yielded dozens of art pieces. Click on the one you prefer, and you’re taken to a page that gives you a choice of available sizes to download, AND any information on attribution requirements (i.e. giving credit to the artist). What you want to see is this:

Best Picture Quotes: Public Domain Art logo

That means the work is free for you to use without any attribution.

For this picture quote, I added a quote from Van Gogh himself, in the font Chalkduster for its arty feel. The image had 33 shares from my Facebook Fan Page, and had the second highest reach of any of my posts.

If you wish to share on Facebook, click here. Or pin the image below to Pinterest!

If you need help putting your picture quote together, see this post on creating quote pictures without Photoshop.

Share this post if you found this info valuable on using free public domain art for the best picture quotes.

Best Picture Quotes with FREE Public Domain Art

Filed Under: How-to Graphics Tagged With: free images for commercial use, how to make picture quotes, quote pictures

About Louise Myers

Louise Myers is a graphic design expert whose designs have been featured by Disney, Macy's, WalMart and more. Her straightforward writing style empowers small business owners to make their own graphics for social media success!

Comments

  1. Beverly Lewis says

    April 16, 2013 at 12:05 PM

    Your posts are gold nuggets to me. I LOVE to make my own quotes for Social Media and didn’t know about this site. Thank you.

    Reply
    • Louise Myers says

      April 19, 2013 at 9:32 AM

      You’re more than welcome, Beverly. I’m so glad it helped!

      Reply
  2. Helena Bowers says

    April 16, 2013 at 3:51 PM

    Great tip Louise! WikiMedia is one of the web’s best kept secrets I think. I knew about it, but never even thought of it for doing quotes. Thanks!

    Reply
    • Louise Myers says

      April 19, 2013 at 9:32 AM

      You’re welcome Lena, and thanks for sharing!

      Reply
  3. Susie says

    April 16, 2013 at 8:20 PM

    Hi Louise♡
    Great article and tips.
    I went to Wikimedia and looked found one of my my favourite artists – Waterhouse and if I’m reading right it is OK to use his images – it seems too good to be true – so I’m checking!!
    Also what does it mean – You cannot overwrite this file…….What my intention is is to take paintings and use them in much the same way you did with the Van Gogh one by adding a quote over it.
    Thanks muchly for your continuing generosity, Susie♡

    Reply
    • Louise Myers says

      April 19, 2013 at 9:30 AM

      Hi Susie!
      Can you give me a link to where you’re seeing that “overwrite” statement? If the work is in the public domain you should be able to use it as you wish – as far as I know. So let me take a look and see if I know what’s going on!

      Reply
  4. Lynne says

    April 19, 2013 at 12:10 AM

    Great news! Didn’t know this about public domain art. This information will really be helpful to me.

    Reply
    • Louise Myers says

      April 21, 2013 at 10:08 PM

      I hope you enjoy it, Lynne!

      Reply
  5. Martha Giffen says

    April 19, 2013 at 6:17 AM

    I love the Public Domain! Content can also be used for creating e-books and other products! Thanks for this great reminder!

    Reply
    • Louise Myers says

      April 21, 2013 at 10:10 PM

      Yep, it’s great for all kinds of uses! Great to see you Martha – thanks for visiting!

      Reply
  6. Bill Gassett says

    December 24, 2013 at 8:40 AM

    Louise this is fantastic as I was not familiar with the Wikimedia site! I just spent the last half hour looking around at some of the terrific pictures. Looks like I have another source for some great visuals.

    Reply
    • Louise Myers says

      December 24, 2013 at 11:16 AM

      It’s a wonderful source. Glad i could turn you on to it!

      Reply
  7. Nicole says

    December 25, 2013 at 8:28 PM

    A great tip, just what I was looking for…thank you!! 🙂

    Reply
    • Louise Myers says

      December 27, 2013 at 7:58 AM

      I’m happy to hear that, Nicole!

      Reply

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