Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."
- Eugene Delacroix
"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
"The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures."
- George Braque
"I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me."
- Henri Matisse
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
- Henry Ward Beecher
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."
- James McNeill Whistler
"I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music."
- Joan Miro
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso
"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art."
- Paul Cézanne
"The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel."
- Piet Mondrian
"Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us."
- Roy Adzak
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
- Thomas Merton
"There is no must in art because art is free."
- Wassily Kandinsky
"Art is a picture of the spirit."
-Marty Rubin
