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"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
Pablo Picasso
"People can misinterpret almost anything so that it coincides with views they already hold. They take from art what they already believe."
Stanley Kubrick
"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."
Tom Stoppard
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
Aristotle
"The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you."
James Michener
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape."
Pablo Picasso
"The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure."
Dale Carnegie
"The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first."
Blaise Pascal
"The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow."
Kurt Vonnegut
"The urge for destruction is also a creative urge."
Mikhail Bakunin
"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun."
Pablo Picasso
"There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them."
Plato
"There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit."
Ansel Adams
"There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth."
John F. Kennedy
"What is art but a way of seeing?"
Saul Bellow
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
George Bernard Shaw
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