“Art is literacy of the heart.” – Elliot Eisner

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” - Francis Bacon

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” - Aristotle

“Let the beauty we love be what we do.” - Rumi

“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place; from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape.”  – Picasso

“Healthy perfectionism comes out of a desire for wholeness and fullness, the fundamental human need for individuation and spiritual growth.” - Carl Jung

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be at peace with himself.  What a  woman can be, she must be.” -  Abraham Maslow

“I paint in order not to cry.” – Paul Klee

“Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to creative.”  - Nicole Malebranche

“A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.”  -Michelangelo

“Still – in a way – nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small – we haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”  – Georgia O’Keefe