Albert Camus

“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”

John James Audubon

“The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.”

Susan Sontag

“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.”

Abraham Lincoln

“The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.”

George Santayana

“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.”

Leo Tolstoy

“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”

M. C. Escher

“Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?”

Gwendolyn Brooks

“Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.”

Paul Valery

“An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.”

Frank Zappa

“Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.”

Ludwig van Beethoven

“Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?”

Samuel Beckett

“To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.”