“Paint me like one of your French girls.” – Titanic
“Art should be something that liberates your soul.” – Henri Matisse
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom.” – John F. Kennedy
“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” – Pablo Picasso
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton
“Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” – Pablo Picasso
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas
“The painter has the universe in his mind and hands.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” – Cesar Cruz
“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” – Pablo Picasso
“Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor.” – Vincent van Gogh
“The purpose of art is to express the ineffable.” – Edvard Munch
“Imagination is the voice of daring.” – Henri Matisse
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” – Oscar Wilde
“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.” – George Edward Moore
“Artistic expression is a journey into the unknown, where only the heart has a map.” – Mia Hollow
“Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.” – Julian Barnes