New Images "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."

"Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling."

"Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid."

"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream."

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself."

"We have art in order not to die of the truth."

"Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing /to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden."

"There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship."

"The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."

"Judge not my passion, by my want of skill,Many love well, though they express it ill."

"The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"