"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."- Scott Adams
Know Thyself! "The unexamined life is not worth living." To know oneself makes for power, self-control and success. Individuals encounter difficulty in life because they do not fully comprehend their abilities, limitations or the full range of their personalities. They need a psychological mirror enabling each person to see the self as it really is, including its strengths, weaknesses, and potentialities. - Socrates (400 B.C.E.)
"Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?" - Ludwig Van Beethoven
"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." - Danny Kaye
"Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up." - A.A. Milne
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming - WOW what a ride!!" - Author Unknown
"The fishermen knows that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore." - Vincent Van Gogh
"The first thing you see is the last thing you do." - Helen Van Wyk
"In relations with people, as in art, if you always stick to style, manners, and what will work, and you're never caught off guard, then some beautiful experiences never happen." - Helen Frankenthaler, Painter
"The mechanics of putting one spot of color next to another, that is the fundamental thing." - Charles Hawthorne
"I am always doing things I can't do; that's how I get to do them." - Pablo Picasso
"The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates." - Oscar Wilde
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection" - Michelangelo
"All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness" - Eckhart Toile
"I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious." - Andrew Wyeth
"I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else." - Giorgio Morandi
"I like living in the 20th century.. to me the world has never been more beautiful. I
am trying to paint the real world I live in, as beautifully as I can with my own eyes" - Jeffrey Smart
"It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting." - Pierre Bonnard
"There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it." - Henry Moore
"You come to nature with all her theories, and she
knocks them all flat." - Renoir
"Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity." - Damien Hirst
"O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives." - Jim Morrison
"Babies are my inspiration and my joy. In them, I see innocence and the precious possibilities of each life unfolding. In my images, I hope to convey a measure of the beauty that exists in all children." - Anne Geddes
"The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read." - Paul Cezanne
"Will God or someone else give me the strength to breathe the breath of prayer and mourning into
my paintings, the breath of prayer for redemption and resurrection?" - Marc Chagall
"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad." - Salvador Dali
"Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth." - Paul Gauguin
"Great art is the outward expression of an inner
life in the artist." - Edward Hopper
"They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality." - Frida Kahlo
"A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs." - Leonardo da Vinci
"The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model." - Henri Matisse
"The
method of painting is the natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them." - Jackson Pollock
"Great art reaches beyond the senses and sensibilities to touch the soul." - Michael Israel
"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law." - Pablo Picasso
"Art is the expression of imagination, not the duplication of reality." - Henry Moore
"Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs." - Pablo Picasso
"In any well-ordered household the very thought that one of the young may turn out to be an artist can be a cause for general alarm." - Ben Shahn
"I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to embrace all people who are striving for alternatives in an increasingly dehumanized world." - Judy Chicago, American, 1939-
