Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. - Pablo Picasso

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. - Twyla Tharp

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. - William Faulkner

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. - Pablo Picasso

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler

Painting is silent poetry. - Plutarch, Moralia: How to Study Poetry

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. - Leonardo da Vinci

It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet. - Kojiro Tomita

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. - Amy Lowell