Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people. – Jen Knox
To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change – Cassandra Clare
I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he’s in business: Beethoven’s deafness, Goya’s deafness, Milton’s blindness, that kind of thing. – John Berryman
Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas. – E.A. Bucchianeri
Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you – Ginnetta Correli
Art is everywhere you look for it, hail the twinkling stars for they are God’s careless splatters – El Greco
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
What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty. – Alain de Botton
I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours. – Oscar Wilde
A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw. – Robert Henri
Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world. – Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The snapshots in CHINA: Portrait of a People are not meant to be works of art. I was too preoccupied with participating, with reveling in the moment, to worry about their perfection. Their purpose, then, is to form a candid portrait of China exactly as China presented itself to me. – Tom Carter
