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"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination."

Edward Hopper

"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."

Paul Gauguin

"Art is a passion or it is nothing."

Robert Fry

"Art is the only means by which one soul can truly touch another."

Curtis Verdun

"Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God."

Rembrandt

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

Pablo Picasso

"If we dare to stifle creative expression, we slur the names of all artists and offend their respective works."

Curtis Verdun

"...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things."

Constantin Brancusi

"Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced."

Hans Hofman

"If we dare to stifle creative expression, we slur the names of all artists and offend their respective works."

Curtis Verdun

"Art is a passion or it is nothing."

Robert Fry

"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."

Pablo Picasso

"I am an artist - I am here to live out loud."

Emile Zola

"Seeing is an experience. People, not their eyes, see. There is more to seeing than meets the eyeball."

N. R. Hanson