- Art is the highest form of hope ~ Gerard Richter
- Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. ~ Oscar Wilde
- Art is when the heart guides the hand ~ Victorio Edades
- Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led. ~ Louis Kahan
- To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist. ~ Jasper Johns
- From around the age of six, I had the habit of sketching from life. I became an artist, and from fifty on began producing works that won some reputation, but nothing I did before the age of seventy was worthy of attention. At seventy-three, I began to grasp the structures of birds and beasts, insects and fish, and of the way plants grow. If I go on trying, I will surely understand them still better by the time I am eighty-six, so that by ninety I will have penetrated to their essential nature. At one hundred, I may well have a positively divine understanding of them, while at one hundred and thirty, forty, or more I will have reached the stage where every dot and every stroke I paint will be alive. May Heaven, that grants long life, give me the chance to prove that this is no lie. -Katsuhika Hokusai
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