“The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual.”

-Faifield Porter

“Creativity takes courage.”

-Henri Matisse

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”

-Vincent van Gogh

“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.”

-Andy Warhol

“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.”

-Salvador Dali

“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.”

-Marc Chagall

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

-Andy Warhol

“To create one’s own world takes courage.”

-Georgia O’Keeffe

“Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.”

-Edgar Degas

“I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.”

-Henri Matisse

“For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.”

-Georges Rouault

“Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.”

-Andy Warhol

“I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me – shapes and ideas so near to me – so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down.”

-Georgia O’Keeffe

“I create as a means of coping with external forces i feel i need to either understand or confront through a tangible medium.”

-Gabriel Shaffer

“Disciples be damned. It’s not interesting. It’s only the masters that matter. Those who create.”

-Pablo Picasso

“We’d all like to vote for the best man, but he’s never a candidate.”

-Frank McKinney Hubbard

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”

-Bill Watterson

“Love has no desire but to fulfill itself.  To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.  To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”

-Kahlil Gibran

“It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.”

-Mark Rothko

“Experience is just another word for losing hope.”

-Scott Adams

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

-Pablo Picasso

“My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.”

-Pablo Picasso

“I’ve never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.”

-Diego Rivera

“The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.”

-Henry Miller

“I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.”

-Andy Warhol