“Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.” – Rebecca West

“My painting does not come from the easel.” – Jackson Pollock

“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” – Edgar Degas

“Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.” – Pierre Bonnard

“My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.” – Raoul Dufy

“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Art is the daughter of freedom.” – Friedrich Schiller

“Art is not a thing; it is a way.” – Elbert Hubbard

“Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.” – Constantin Stanislavski

“Insight is the first condition of Art.” – George Henry Lewes