“Art is a line around your thoughts.” ~ Gustav Klimt

“Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.” ~ Paul Klee

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” ~ Degas

“The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.” ~ Auguste Rodin

“My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.” ~ Pablo Picasso

“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” ~ Claude Monet

“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works: if from the head, almost nothing.” ~ Marc Chagall

“If you hear a voice within you saying, ‘You are not a painter,’ then by all means paint, boy, and that voice will be silenced.”

~ Vincent van Gogh