My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. Agnes Martin

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. Michelangelo Buonarroti

Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best. Woody Allen

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words. Ivan Turgenev

What I dream of is an art of balance. Henri Matisse

Life imitates art far more than art imitates life. Oscar Wilde

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. Auguste Rodin

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three. Robert Motherwell

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. Woody Allen

We have a lot of reasons but only one real one. Pablo Picasso

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. Andy Warhol

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? Andy Warhol

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. Henri Matisse

There must be more to life than having everything. Maurice Sendak

Art is not a thing; it is a way. Elbert Hubbard

I've never been able to predict what people are going to get mad at. I've tried and I've always been surprised. Aaron Mcgruder

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes. Pablo Picasso