"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream."
--Vincent van Gogh
"What is art?
It is the conscious, deliberate production of an event or object of beauty (or emotional import) by a human being, employing not only the skill of the craftsman, but in addition, an element of creativity--original, inventive, instinctive, genius. An art object is an aesthetic artifact, deliberately created.
Art actually lies in the act of creation, not in its result."
--G. Ellis Burcaw, Introduction to Museum Work
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place; from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web."
"I don't say everything, but I paint everything."
-- Pablo Picasso