“When artists make art, they shouldn’t question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.” – Sol LeWitt

“I start a picture and I finish it.” – Jean-Michel Basquiat

“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.” – A. A. Milne

“Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.” – Hans Hofmann

“We sit in the mud… and reach for the stars.” – Ivan Turgenev

“Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.” – Alexander Smith

“Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.” – Willem de Kooning

“Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.” – Stephen Sondheim

“What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.” – Lionel Trilling