“To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.” – Philip Guston

“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson

“No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.” – Theodore Bikel

“All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

“What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer

“A forest bird never wants a cage.” – Henrik Ibsen

“I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists.” – Marcel Duchamp

“Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?” – James Montgomery

“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” – Stella Adler