Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. - G.K. Chesterton

Grammar stops at love, and at art. - Valentine Sterling

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world. - André Malraux

An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it. - Paul Valéry

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. - Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, 1915

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. - Oscar Wilde

If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art. - Adeline Cullen Ray

An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. - Jean Cocteau, Newsweek, 16 May 1955

The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is. - Alfred Tonnelle

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. - Albert Camus