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" Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour. "

Giotto di Bondone

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" I don't know if One Direction will stand the test of time. I have a niece who goes crazy for them. But the only way to judge art is to wait and see if it becomes evergreen. This takes a bit of time. Adele is a very good musician and I'd like to sing with her. But, again, time will tell if her music will become evergreen. "

" Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout. "

Robert Schumann

" Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. "

" What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. "

Jackson Pollock

" The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing. "

" The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important. "

" Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. "

" I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing. "

Francis Ford Coppola

" Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

" Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art. "

" Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter's quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows. "

Jennifer Chiaverini

" Rules and models destroy genius and art. "

William Hazlitt

" Someone made me a Leaf Coneybear finger puppet. Someone made me a portrait of me on some chocolate. I'm keeping it. I daren't eat such a work of art. It's so unique and so fun that fans do that. It's incredibly flattering. I like it when people spend time on me. People don't spend the same amount of time on my brother who's an insurance broker. "

" The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise. "

Thomas Sydenham

" The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. "

" Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. "

" No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. "

" Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear. "

" To me, snowboarding is really an art form, and I think every athlete, every snowboarder has her own style, and that makes them stand out. "

" A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art. "

" The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. "

Robert Rauschenberg

" To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. "

" Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. "

" Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. "

" Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home. "

" In order to figure this artmaking stuff out, it's trial and error and experimentation, and takes some time and hard thinking. Putting work out in many forms and stages is an extension of how I see things. I feel the art process is best served when it invites comments and constructive criticism from people. "

" Art is the daughter of freedom. "

Friedrich Schiller

" To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul. "