“I realize that every picture isn’t a work of art.” – Conrad Hall

“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.” – Salvador Dali

“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.” – Salvador Dali

“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.” – Salvador Dali

“Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.” – Jean Rostand

“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” – James Whistler

“The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.” – Orson Welles

“Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.” – Baltasar Gracian

“I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.” – William Butler Yeats

“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.” – W. Somerset Maugham