“Space is the breath of art.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.” – Andre Maurois

“The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Art is the signature of civilizations.” – Beverly Sills

“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.” – Albert Camus

“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.” – Leo Tolstoy

“Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?” – M. C. Escher

“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.” – George Santayana

“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.” – Amy Lowell

“Every artist writes his own autobiography.” – Havelock Ellis