I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings... "Boy With Pail"... "Kitten On Fire."
Steven Wright

I rarely draw what I see -- I draw what I feel in my body.
Barbara Hepworth

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
Vincent van Gogh

Reading is a basic tool in the living of the good life.
Mortimer Adler

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
Henri Matisse

Art is when you do something just cockeyed from what is the right way to do it -- then it's art.
Will Rogers

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can only be explored by those willing to take the risks.
Mark Rothko

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Henry James