Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?  Ludwig  van  Beethoven

When the soul wants to have an experience of something, she throws an image of the thing ahead of her and then enters into it. Meister Johann Eckhart

I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something. Vincent Van Gogh

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies. Pablo Picasso

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.  Constantin Brancusi

A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades.  Pablo Picasso

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.   Henry David Thoreau