Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being. – C.G. Jung

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.- – Langston Hughes

Art has a voice – let it speak. – Rochelle Carr

Do whatever you do intensely. – Robert Henri

Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

كنت كلما رأيتها في لباسها الفلسطيني المليء بالمزركشات والموتيفات الحية والنوار، اعترتني رغبة في أخذ الفرشاة بجنون وتغميسها في لباسها ورسم أشكال مجنونة من ألوان فستانها – واسيني الأعرج

كنت كلما رأيتها في لباسها الفلسطيني المليء بالمزركشات والموتيفات الحية والنوار، اعترتني رغبة في أخذ الفرشاة بجنون وتغميسها في لباسها ورسم أشكال مجنونة من ألوان فستانها – واسيني الأعرج

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. – Cesar A. Cruz

It is the first vision that counts. The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other… for no two visions are alike, and those who reach the heights have all toiled up steep mountains by a different route. To each has been revealed a different panorama. – Albert Pinkham Ryder

It is the first vision that counts. The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other… for no two visions are alike, and those who reach the heights have all toiled up steep mountains by a different route. To each has been revealed a different panorama. – Albert Pinkham Ryder

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it. – Jorge Luis Borges

Art is communication. – Madeleine L’Engle

Music gives color to the air of the moment. – Karl Lagerfeld

You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, ‘This is art, and you can’t do it. – Steve Martin