Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
William Faulkner

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

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler

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