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

Don't change your art for your audience.
Change your audience.
TR

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

Artistic creation proceeds by a series of destructions.
T. S. Eliot

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. 
Pablo Picasso

No great artist ever sees things as they really are.
If he did, he would cease to be an artist. 
Oscar Wilde

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. 
Edward Hopper

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. 
Piet Mondrian

Thinking is more interesting than knowing,
but less interesting than looking. 
Goethe

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way—things I had no words for. 
Georgia O'Keefe

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations when all is said and done?  
Pablo Picasso

Don’t think about making art, just get it done.  Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it.  While they are deciding, make even more art.
Andy Warhol

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting. 
Vincent Van Gogh

There is something in painting which cannot be explained,
and that something is essential. 
Pierre Renoir

​We artists are driven towards personal lives nourished in these strange techniques of self-pursuit.
Lawrence Durrell (from Clea)