“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” – Andre Gide

“The great artist is a slave to his ideals.” – Christian Nestell Bovee

“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.” – Diane Arbus

“I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

“Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.” – Guillaume Apollinaire

“All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.” – Iris Murdoch

“In art the best is good enough.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.” – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.” – Novalis

“If I didn’t choose art, I would have become an astronomer.” – Peter Max