An artist's instinct is more refined than the typical mortal's. - Holden Rinehart

For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one. - William McElcheran

An artist must be careful not to throw his ideas out with the trash. - Dena Groquet

Art is a kind of illness. - Giacomo Puccini

A great artist is always before his time or behind it. - George Moore

A man and his art are like a fool and his king. - Corri Alius

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum. - Claes Oldenburg

Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing. To morals belong the lower and less intellectual spheres. - Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt. - Odilon Redon

The question of common sense is always what is it good for? - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage. - James Russell Lowell