“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.”
-- James Whistler
“Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.”
-- Stendhal
“All art is but imitation of nature.”
-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
-- Pablo Picasso
“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”
-- Winston Churchill
“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.”
-- H. L. Mencken
“I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.”
-- Maria Callas
“Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.”
-- Albert Camus
“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.”
-- William Wordsworth
“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”
-- Marcus Aurelius