Art is made by the alone for the alone. ~ Luis Barragán

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. ~ Jorge Luis Borges

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. ~ Winston Churchill

Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality. ~ John Dewey

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography. ~ Federico Fellini

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art. ~ Goethe

I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream. ~ Vincent van Gogh

Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it. ~ Dong Kingman

Instinct and study; love and hate;
Audacity — reverence. These must mate,
And fuse with Jacob’s mystic heart,
To wrestle with the angel — Art. ~ Herman Melville

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John. ~ Boris Pasternak