“Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.” – John Updike

“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.” – George Jean Nathan

“Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.” – Jack Levine

“I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.” – Marc Chagall

“The goal of art was the vital expression of self.” – Alfred Stieglitz

“A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.” – Henry Moore

“I think about my work every minute of the day.” – Jeff Koons

“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.” – Walt Whitman

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

“One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.” – Georgia O’Keeffe