"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."
 (James McNeill Whistler)
 
 

"Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." 
(Pablo Picasso)
 
 

"I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that
 shape music." 
(Joan Miro)

"There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are
 in history books." 
 (Charlie Chaplin)
 
 

"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands." 
(Michelangelo)

"Art doesn't transform. 
It just plain forms."
 (Roy Lichtenstein)
 
 

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
 (Albert Einstein)

"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
(Francis Bacon)
 

"I shut my eyes in order to see."
(Paul Gauguin)
 
 

The beginning is the most important part of the work. (Plato) 
 
 
 
 

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
(Eric Gill)
 
 

"Art is not what you see, 
but what you 
make others see."
 (Degas)
 
 
 

"Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind."
(Louise Nevelson)
 
 
 

"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish." 
 (Michelangelo)
 
 
 

"Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches
into nature and which there divines the spirit of which
Nature herself
  is animated." 
(Auguste Rodin )
 

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. (Guillaume Apollinaire)
 
 

To be an artist is to believe in life. 
(Henry Moore) 
 
 

The artist… tells his audience, at the risk of their displeasure, the secrets of their own hearts. 
(R. G. Collingwood)
 
 

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. (Confucious) 
 
 

Every artist was first an amateur.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson) 
 
 

Art seems to me to be a state of soul more than anything else. 
(Marc Chagall)
 
 

With age, art and life become one. 
(Georges Braque)