The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him. He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them... Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
                                Henry David Thoreau

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.  It is the source of all true art and science.  He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
                                 Albert Einstein

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
                                Jessamyn West

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work.  Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it.  That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping
                      Jean Cocteau

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination..                
                              Robert Brault

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

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue.  Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid..
                                            Jules Feiffer

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality..
                                       Robert Brault

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
                                        John Ruskin

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else..
                          Robert Brault

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.  Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.  Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities..
                                     Theodore Geisel

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
                                  William Shakespeare

I remembered a story of how Bach was approached by a young admirer one day and asked, "But Papa Bach, how do you manage to think of all these new tunes?"  "My dear fellow," Bach is said to have answered, "I have no need to think of them.  I have the greatest difficulty not to step on them when I get out of bed in the morning and start moving around my room. 
                          Laurens Van der Post

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
                           Albert Szent-Györgyi

I believe in the imagination....What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
                             Duane Michals

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge..
                          Tuli Kupferberg

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
                                Paul Gauguin

Under every full moon, a woolgathering world idles..
                               Lorraine Skylark

Saber observar como extraño nos ayuda a ver como artista. Lo que nos enajena nos inspira...

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
                                        Frank Barron

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
                                     Mark Twain

Don't expect anything original from an echo.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
                            Pablo Picasso

El color és un mitjà per a exercir una influència directa sobre l'ànima.  L'ull és el martell temprador, l'ànima és un piano amb moltes cordes, i l'artista, és la mà que mitjançant una tecla determinada, fa vibrar l'ànima humana
                                               Wassily Kandinsky

El arte es la expresión de los más profundos pensamientos por el camino más sencillo
                                                   Albert Einstein

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

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
                                                   Henry Matisse

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen
                                                  Leonardo da Vinci

The method of painting is the natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.
                 Jackson Pollock

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
                                          Vincent Van Gogh

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time..
                                          Cy Twombly

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
                                    Eckhart Tolle

I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion..
                              Euan Uglow

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love...

A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing..
                                    Sir William Dobell

There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it..
                                 Henry Moore

At some point we’ve got to stop asking ourselves what is the meaning of everything, maybe it’s not so very important what it means. It’s probably more important what the sense of it is.. they are two very basic and different things..
                              Willem de Kooning

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.
                                                  Vincent Van Gogh

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life..
                           Jean Paul Richter

An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.
                                      Paul Valéry

Life is every where

LIFE

Life is a challenge, Life is a gift
Life is a chance, Life is a tragedy
Life is lonely.....Life is pain
Life is full of frustration
Life is a mystery...Life is love
Life is made of hurt

Life is not a bed of roses
Life is a dance for you to dance
Life is every state of mind

Life is a puzzle, solve it
Life is full of unexpected....Life is unexplainable

What is an abstract painting ?  In the abstract painting you let the colour flow over the canvas. Many shapes, strokes, sometimes unbeleivable colour mixings, intensities, diverse movements...the artwork  itself speaks to the oberserver...
                                                 

Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are,the things you never want to lose.
                                 The heart that truly loves never forgets…

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
                                             Schumann

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

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them
                                           Andy Warhol

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes...  Art is knowing which ones to keep
                                               Scott Adams

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at

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

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself.  What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done?  A painter has only one language..
                                             Pablo Picasso

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
                                    Pablo Picasso

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie..
                                         Mark Stevens

As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
                                     John Lubbock

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose..             
                                        Willa Cather

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization
                                Lincoln Steffens

In the realist you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.
                                   Robert Brault

When you are describing, a shape, or sound, or tint,don't state the matter plainly, but put it in a hint and learn to look at all things,with a sort of mental squint..
                                       Lewis Carroll

Art is the colors and textures of your imagination..
             Meghan, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world..
                        Donald Judd

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

Art is the triumph over chaos..
                       John Cheever

Art is a fruit that grows in man like a fruit on a plant or a child in its mother’s womb...

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