Whether I’m painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I’m not working, I’m still analyzing people.
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
- Duane Michals
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
- Eckhart Tolle
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
- Mary Schmich
I dream a lot. I do more painting when I’m not painting. It’s in the subconscious.
Andrew Wyeth
Everyone has it in them to be an artist. No matter what you pursue you can still express your own unique artistic vision. And that is the most important thing to do. It doesn´t matter what those around you think or say about your art, what matters is just to go through the process of creating. It´s only whitin that process that you can understand.
- Viggo Mortensen
There’s no retirement for an artist, it’s your way of living so there’s no end to it.
- Henry Moore
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
- George Edward Moore
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W.H. Auden
There’s nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.
Robert De Niro
A picture is a poem without words.
- Horace
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
- Novalis
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
- James Baldwin
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
- Charles Horton Cooley
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- George Eliot
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
- Buke Ellington
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.
- Bruce Springsteen
The artist is not a different kind of person,
but every person is a different kind of artist.
- Eric Gil
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
— Pablo Picasso
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
— Georg Bernard Shaw
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
