Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.

Stephen Sondhiem

Ars Longa, Vita Brevis - Art (is) Long, Life (is) Short.

Hippocrates

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

Louise Nevelson

Every child is an artist, the problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G.K. Chesterton

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time.

Martha Graham

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Margot Fonteyn

Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and use it in a certain way, and produce art.

Audre Lorde

Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind.

Robert Toth

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the ift is nothing without work.

Emile Zola

Art is born in attention. Its midwife is detail.

Julia Cameron

As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.

Julia Cameron

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rainer Maria Rilke