Art is life.  Our posts on Art here.

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”  — Thomas Merton.

“Creativity takes courage”  — Henri Matisse.

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” — Pablo Picasso

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it”  —  Ansel Adams.

“A picture is a poem without words”  — Horace.

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.” — Pablo Picasso

“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”  —  Michelangelo.

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”  —  Pablo Picasso.

“People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it’s simply necessary to love.”  — Claude Monet.

“I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.”  — Jean-Michel Basquiat.

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”  — Oscar Wilde.

“A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.”  — Hedy Lamarr.

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”  — Pablo Picasso.

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”  —  Leonardo da Vinci.