Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. – G.K. Chesterton
Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. – Marie Laurencin
The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. – John Ruskin
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. – Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), Fiesco, translated from German
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. – Albert Einstein
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. – Abraham Lincoln
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. – Oscar Wilde
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. – Pablo Picasso
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. – Winston Churchill
Every artist was first an amateur. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. – Oscar Wilde
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. – Oscar Wilde
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. – Albert Camus
This world is but a canvas to our imagination. – Henry David Thoreau
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. – James Whistler
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. – Khalil Gibran
