Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world. – Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world. – Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me,so natural to my way of being and thinking. – Georgia O’Keeffe

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me,so natural to my way of being and thinking. – Georgia O’Keeffe

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them. – Flannery O’Connor

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them. – Flannery O’Connor

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? – John Keats

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? – John Keats