"Every artist was first an amateur." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth." - Pablo Picasso
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." - Émile Zola
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." - Thomas Merton
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." - Edgar Degas
"The painter tries to master color, while the musician can only control sound." - Jean-Michel Basquiat
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known." - Oscar Wilde
"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." - Cesar A. Cruz
"Every artist dips his brush in his soul and paints his own nature into his pictures." - Henry Ward Beecher
"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom." - John F. Kennedy
"Art is the stored honey of the human soul." - Theodore Dreiser
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known." - Oscar Wilde
"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth." - Henri Matisse
"Art is the journey of a free soul." - Alev Oguz