• Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
  ~Scott Adams
  


• Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
  ~Pablo Picasso
  


• Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
  ~Twyla Tharp
  


• Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
  ~Pablo Picasso
  


• Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
  ~Leonardo da Vinci
  


• Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
  ~Amy Lowell
  


• We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
  ~Pablo Picasso
  


• The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
  ~Paul Strand
  


• The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.
  ~Henry Miller