"Creativity takes courage." – Henri Matisse​ ​

"Every artist was first an amateur." – Ralph Waldo Emerson​ 

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." – Thomas Merton​

"I dream my painting and then I paint my dream." – Vincent van Gogh​ 

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." – Aristotle​ 

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth." – Pablo Picasso​ 

"To create one's own world takes courage." – Georgia O’Keeffe​ 

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." – Émile Zola​ 

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary." – Pablo Picasso​ 

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." – Edgar Degas​ ​.