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At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important. ::: M.C. Escher :::

Our full range of emotions is our palette with which we bring color to our lives. (Anne Copeland)

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. (Ingmar Bergman)

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole. (Pierre Bonnard)

Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires others. But to express art thoroughly, one must have the inner emotions opened thoroughly. (Meher Baba)

Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination. (Robert Genn) Tags: god

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies. (Erich Fromm) Tags: god

The emotional mind creates, and the rational mind explains it. Another way of saying this is, your 'heart' perceives it and your 'head' translates it. (Alvaro Castagnet)

Hold fast to your dreams, for if dreams die, then life is like a broken winged bird that cannot fly. (Langston Hughes)

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or a Shakespeare. (H. F. Hedge)

Modern art was motivated at least in part by an attempt to avoid appropriating and be original. Seemed to work for a while, but look at it now. (Robert Bissett)

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time. (Darby Bannard) Tags: joy

Modern art is supported by the audacious. (Jill Badonsky) Tags: new

Pop art is neither abstract nor realistic, though it has contacts in both directions. The core of pop art is at neither frontier. It is essentially, an art about signs and sign-systems. (Lawrence Alloway) Tags: pop

Inspiration comes from doing. (Robert Genn) Tags: art

Inspiration comes from nature itself. I am enamored of nature, and that admiration has only increased as I age. (Benjamin Eisenstat)

Innovation - any new idea - by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous pati......

To say that a painting is strong is a compliment. Its strength may come from the combination of its colors or subject matter or something subtle that not all viewers will feel. (Peggy Hadden)

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. (Thomas Carlyle)

Abstract art has come into being as a necessary expression of the feelings and thoughts of our age; it has added new dimensions to creative painting. (Leonard Brooks)