If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. Anais Nin on art
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. Albert Camus on art
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. Elbert Hubbard on art
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. Georgia O'Keeffe on art
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. Henry Ward Beecher on art
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. Michelangelo on art
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. Andy Warhol on art