"I am an artist. I am here to live out loud." Emile Zola

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary." Pablo Picasso

"An artist is not paid for his labor, but for his vision." James McNeill Whistler

"A work of art must not be something that leaves the viewer unmoved....something passed by with a casual glance. It has to make the viewer react, feel strongly, start creating too....if only in the imagination." Gustav Klimt

"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art." Paul Cezanne

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do." Edgar Degas

"Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love." Claude Monet    

"Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." Aristotle

"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best." Henry Van Dyke