“There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.” – Leonora Carrington
“This life’s dim windows of the soul distorts the heavens from pole to pole and leads you to believe a lie when you see with, not through, the eye.” – William Blake
“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” ― Vincent Van Gogh
“What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.” – Harold Rosenberg
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way, things I had no words for.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
“I want to work in the gap between life and art.” – Robert Rauschenberg
“Be a lamp, a lifeboat or a ladder.” – Rumi
“There’s no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist, it’s not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.” – Kara Walker
“Tout sa ou pa konnen pi gran pase’w’ ” (What you don’t know is bigger than you) – Haitian Creole saying
“I do not paint things, but the relationship between them.” – Henri Matisse
“There is a thing about beauty. Beauty is always associated with the male fantasy of what the female body is. I don’t think there is anything wrong with beauty. It’s just what women think is beautiful can be different. And there can be a beauty in individualism. If there is a wart or a scar, this can be beautiful, in a sense, when you paint it.” – Jenny Saville
“Creativity is Divinity in Motion.” – Source Unknown
“I would rather take a photograph than be one.” – Lee Miller
“Art is an abstraction, take inspiration from nature and think of the creative process rather than the result.” – Paul Gauguin to Pierre Bonnard
“I would like to paint the way a bird sings.” – Claude Monet
“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour.” – William Blake
“You can’t sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it.” – Faith Ringgold
“Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.” – Vincent Van Gogh
