Without great solitude no serious work is possible.
Pablo Picasso
The great artist is the simplifier.
Vincent Van Gogh
I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
George Bernard Shaw
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.
Émile Zola
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
Albert Einstein
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed at imitation.
Herman Melville
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas
