An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. – Oscar Wilde

Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word “art”. If we just act with awareness and integrity, our art will flower, and we don’t have to talk about it at all. – Thích Nhất Hạnh

Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word “art”. If we just act with awareness and integrity, our art will flower, and we don’t have to talk about it at all. – Thích Nhất Hạnh

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. – Alfred North Whitehead

This pause in time, within time … When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one’s own, one’s certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothing in comparison to the release and openness and fluency one shares with another, in close companionship … – Muriel Barbery

This pause in time, within time … When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one’s own, one’s certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothing in comparison to the release and openness and fluency one shares with another, in close companionship … – Muriel Barbery

Imagination is Everything! – Termina Ashton

If Art does not enlarge men’s sympathies, it does nothing morally. – George Eliot

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life. – Joan Miró

I didn’t plan on either children or writing. Once I realized that writing satisfied me in some enormous way, I had to make adjustments. The writing was always marginal in terms of time when the children were small. But it was major in terms of my head. I always thought that women could do a lot of things. All the women I knew did nine or ten things at one time. I always understood that women worked, they went to church, they managed their houses, they managed somebody else’s houses, they raised their children, they raised somebody else’s children, they taught. I wouldn’t say it’s not hard, but why wouldn’t it be? All important things are hard. – Toni Morrison

I didn’t plan on either children or writing. Once I realized that writing satisfied me in some enormous way, I had to make adjustments. The writing was always marginal in terms of time when the children were small. But it was major in terms of my head. I always thought that women could do a lot of things. All the women I knew did nine or ten things at one time. I always understood that women worked, they went to church, they managed their houses, they managed somebody else’s houses, they raised their children, they raised somebody else’s children, they taught. I wouldn’t say it’s not hard, but why wouldn’t it be? All important things are hard. – Toni Morrison

Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man. – Maxim Gorky

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

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way… things I had no words for. – Georgia O’Keeffe