Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you. – Salvador Dalí
I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn’t have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn’t exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives. – Lloyd Alexander
The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul. – Maxim Gorky
I would rather fail as an artist than succeed as anything else. – Robert Dowling
Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy. – Karl Lagerfeld
Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light. – Jyrki Vainonen
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. – Louis Nizer
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. – Émile Zola
