"Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world."

André Maurois

"Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it."

Robert Motherwell

"He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist."

St Fancis of Assisi

"Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something."

Georgia O'Keeffe

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

Curtis Verdun