Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
Walter Pater
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
John F. Kennedy
One who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can not be an artist.
Anton Chekhov
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
William Faulkne
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
Washington Irving
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
