Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols … Art tells gorgeous lies that come true. – Hakim Bey

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

But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine. – Dominique De Menil

Art is either revolution or plagiarism – Paul Gauguin

It is necessary to keep one’s compass in one’s eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges. – Michelangelo

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. – Oscar Wilde

Art isn’t a product. It’s an experience – Lori Lansens

A fine work of art – music, dance, painting, story – has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place. – Robert McKee

I’m collector of stuff that people make with their brain. I keep them in little jars and I take them out and play with them sometimes too. The stuff, not the people. – Frances Winkler

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine. – Pablo Picasso

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. – Salvador Dalí

Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you – Ginnetta Correli