To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.~ Aaron Copland

A picture is a poem without words ~ Horace

A picture paints a thousand words ~ Anon

Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable ~ George Bernard Shaw

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures ~ Henry Ward Beecher

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls ~ Pablo Picasso

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision ~ James Whistler

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home ~ Twyla Tharp

The world is but a canvas to our imagination ~ Henry David Thoreau

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad ~ Salvador Dali

Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do ~ Edgar Degas

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it ~ Paul Valery

A man creates with his brains and not with his hands ~ Michelangelo

Color is my day long obsession, joy and torment – Claude Monet