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You can't look at abstract art without thinking. (Patricia Cole-Ferullo)

What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic, and pervades both the picture and the eye of the spectator with conceptions of new and unfamiliar elements.......

If you are not going to get a thrill, how can you give someone else one? You must feel the beauty of the thing before you start. (Charles Hawthorne)

Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion. (T. S. Eliot)

It is fascinating that all kinds of moods can result in really good works... not just during the highs or "on a roll" moods. Surrender to the process. And it will envelop you. (Jack Dickerson)

Agonies thrilled through me as if my blood were running ice cold in my veins. I stopped composing. My mind became feebler as my feelings grew more intense. (Hector Berlioz)

We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the contemplation of a work of art. (John F. Carlson)

I live in a world of miracles and people destroy those miracles because they don't understand them. (Abby Schwartz)

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor. (Jim Rohn)

Everything is miraculous. It is a miracle that one does not melt in one's bath. (Pablo Picasso)

I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint... (Claude Monet)

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything. (Abraham Maslow)

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. (Charles A. Lindbergh)

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. (Helen Keller)

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. (Philip Guston)

What is it when the human being makes the mark on the canvas? It's the miracle. (Jerry Fresia)

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. (Albert Einstein)

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. (Ray Bradbury)

Creativity is an essential part of being human, a vital force without which we can exist, but not truly live. (Ann Cashman)