"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." — Pablo Picasso
"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home." — Twyla Tharp
"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'Keeffe
"The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity." — Alberto Giacometti
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." — Edgar Degas
"Inspiration exists, but it must find you working." — Pablo Picasso
"Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it." — Salvador Dalí
"Creativity takes courage." — Henri Matisse
"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." — Vincent van Gogh
"Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence." — Henri Matisse
"Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it." — Andy Warhol
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection." — Michelangelo
"There are always flowers for those who want to see them." — Henri Matisse
"I paint flowers so they will not die." — Frida Kahlo
"To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour." — William Blake
"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream." — Vincent van Gogh
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." — Henry Ward Beecher
"They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality." — Frida Kahlo
"The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live." — Auguste Rodin
"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it." — Kurt Vonnegut