"Art gives you a reason to get up every morning and something to think about when you go to bed at night" ~ J.R. Bell

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

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

“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection”  ~Michelangelo

"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist".  ~Schumann

"I don't paint things.  I only paint the difference between things."  ~Henri Matisse

All paintings are artwork, but precious few become works of art ~Peter Fiore

"Just to paint is great fun. The colors are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing." -        Winston Churchill

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.  ~Theodore Dreiser, Life, Art, and America, 1917

"If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun." - Edgar Degas

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.  ~Aristotle