“An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.” – Paul Valery

“The perfection of art is to conceal art.” – Quintilian

“Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.” – Ansel Adams

“Art is anything you can get away with.” – Marshall McLuhan

“I paint with shapes.” – Alexander Calder

“Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart’s desire.” – John Dewey

“Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.” – Ambrose Bierce

“The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.” – Max Eastman

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow