An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

–James McNeill Whistler

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

–Thomas Merton

Alexander Graham Bell was a pianist whose invention of the telephone began with a simple musical game.

–Bob Root-Bernstein, Ph. D

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

–Edgar Degas

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my reality.

–Frida Kahlo

The arts are a very good investment ... Imagination is what keeps us number one.

–Nancy Pelosi

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

–Pablo Picasso

We have art in order not to die of life.

–Albert Camus

Art is like toothpaste, without it your soul decays.

–Christopher Coppola

Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention ... It's a gift to the world and every being in it. 

–Steven Pressfield

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

–Russell Simmons

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

–Auguste Rodin

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

–C.S. Lewis

Every artist was first an amateur.

–Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

–Martha Graham

If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing.

–Zimbabwe proverb

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

–Henry Miller

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

–Pablo Picasso

A person who doesn't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

–Mark Twain

Kids: They dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.  

–William Stafford