God and other artists are always a little obscure. - Oscar Wilde

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. - Georges Rouault

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. - T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening. - Aaron Howard

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

Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money. - Ernst Levy

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. - John Anthony Ciardi