Herbert Read

“The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.”

Peter Max

“I never know what I’m going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I’m just the middleman.”

Max Eastman

“Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.”

Georgia O'Keeffe

“I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.”

Henry Ossawa Tanner

“I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.”

Joyce Maynard

“The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.”

Paul Gauguin

“Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?”

Mary Schmich

“Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.”