“The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.”— Francisco Goya, facebook.com
“There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.”— Robert Rauschenberg, amazon.com
“Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“Art and love are the same thing: it’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. It’s understanding the unreasonable.”— Chuck Klosterman, amazon.com
“The way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”— Lord Byron, goodreads.com
“I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping, if it seemed to me I knew nothing.”— Paul Cezanne, amazon.com
“Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.”— Lawrence Ferlinghetti, amazon.com
“We’re all misfits here... Halfies and homos and hopeless romantics, the outcast and outrageous and terminally weird. That’s where art comes from... From our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that make each of…”— Terri Windling, amazon.com
“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”— Albert Einstein, goodreads.com
“One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, goodreads.com
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”— Rumi, amazon.com
“I’m an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room and melt into it. I can become invisible. It’s an art, and I am a wonderful practitioner.”— Christine Feehan, amazon.com
“First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.”— Francisco Goya, dantzig.uk
“In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com