“I paint as if I were Rothschild.” – Paul Cezanne

“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.” – John Keats

“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” – Charles Horton Cooley

“Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.” – Thomas Wolfe

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo Picasso

“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.” – Jessamyn West

“I cry out for order and find it only in art.” – Helen Hayes

“The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can’t have both.” – Ben Hecht

“Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.” – Ad Reinhardt

“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.” – Walter Hagen