"We don't see with the eye. We see with the brain."
-Unknown
"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful. Welcome it in every face, in every sky, in every flower."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It's not the scene, it's the seeing."
-James Morgan
"Color exists only through relationships."
-Matisse
"Art is not about art. Art is about life, and that sums it up."
- Louise Bourgeois, artist
"I have no special interest in form following function. I would prefer it just to be accepted as a beautiful thing."
-Wendell Castle
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
-Henry Ward Beecher
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
-Scott Adams
"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
-Pablo Picasso
"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
-Twyla Tharp
"The artist's world is limitless It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep."
-Paul Strand
"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."
-John Updike
"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands."
-Michelangelo
"Every artist dips his brush with his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
-Henry Ward Beecher
"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I shut my eyes in order to see."
-Paul Gaugin
"Art enables us to find ourselves and love ourselves at the same time."
-Thomas Merton
"In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
- Pablo Picasso
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