“We have art in order not to die of the truth.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.” – Novalis

“The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.” – Henry Miller

“The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.” – Logan Pearsall Smith

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas

“So vast is art, so narrow human wit.” – Alexander Pope

“The best artists know what to leave out.” – Charles de Lint

“Man lives by imagination.” – Havelock Ellis

“The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I shut my eyes in order to see.” – Paul Gauguin