“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”— John Ruskin, amazon.com
“...we want to be the poets of our life—first of all in the smallest, most everyday matters.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.”— Pierre-Auguste Renoir, en.wikiquote.org
“A lot of people who are artists don’t understand it themselves. Especially the young ones. They feel different, but they don’t know what it is. They feel more. Everything hurts. Everything. They’re super sensitive. They see things that other people don’t see.”— Rick Rubin, esquire.com
“I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.”— Adolph Gottlieb, amazon.com
“Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.”— Ben Shneiderman, amazon.com
“It is all the same, drawing, painting, modelling, the irresistible desire to copy any beautiful object which strikes the eye.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.com
“Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the song of the birds? Why do they love a night, a flower, everything which surrounds man, without attempting to understand them? Whereas where painting is concerned, they want to understand. Let them understand above all that t…”— Pablo Picasso, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“Once you've created something, it takes up a physical space in the world. It has a permanence that will hopefully outlast you.”— Anna Rubincam, vimeo.com
“Black is the most aristocratic color of all…There is no color that will give you the feeling of totality. Of peace. Of greatness. Of quietness. Of excitement.”— Louise Nevelson, amazon.com
“I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.”— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com
“Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.”— Frederick Sanger, nobelprize.org
“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.”— D.W. Winnicott, goodreads.com