Quotes

"It is more important for me to paint than have a yummy life."  -Mary Pratt

"The journey the artist makes in turning inward to listen and to trust his or her images is a communal journey."  -Matthew Fox

"The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world."  -Edward Hopper

"Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing to be so little appreciated as with criticism.  Only love can grasp and hold and fairly judge them."  - R.M.Rilke

"No matter how fine or meticulous or tortured a picture may be in execution, the risk or chance of it working or not working is always there no matter what the method."  -Helen Frankenthaler

"Once I heard it stated and now I believe it to be true that there is no true art without religion.  The artist himself may not think he is religious but if he is sincere, his sincerity in itself is religion." 
-Emily Carr

"Painting is a happy occupation since it is capable of maintaining our illusions and brings us joy."
-Renoir

"The ultimate work then, is an engagement with soul, responding to the demands of  fate and tending the details of life as it presents itself.  We may get to a point where our external labours and the opus of the sould are one and the same, inseparable.  Then the satisfactions of our work will be deep and long-lasting, undone neither by failures nor by flashes of success."  - Thomas Moore

"In my studio, I'm as happy as a cow in her stall."  -Louise Nevelson

"Artists are going to die like anyone else-- do they want to leave behind a lot of work they don't believe in?"  -Les Levine

"I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did I consider that I'm living on borrowed time.  Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way.  I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it.  I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions."  -Matisse