Every artist was first an amateur.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.
–Edward Hopper
A line is a dot that went for a walk.
–Paul Klee
Kids: They dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
–William Stafford
You cannot use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
–Maya Angelou
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
–Katherine Hepburn
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
–Thomas Merton
The arts are a very good investment ... Imagination is what keeps us number one.
–Nancy Pelosi
Alexander Graham Bell was a pianist whose invention of the telephone began with a simple musical game.
–Bob Root-Bernstein, Ph. D
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
–Michelangelo
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
–Henry Miller
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
–Michelangelo
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
–Auguste Rodin
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
–Pablo Picasso
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
–Edgar Degas
Successful innovators in sciences and technology are artistic people. Stimulate the arts and you stimulate innovation.
–Bob Root-Bernstein, Ph. D
You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.
–Martha Graham
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
–Pablo Picasso
We believe there is a strong link between the creativity nurtured by the arts and scientific creativity.
–Randall L. Tobias, CEO, Eli Lilly & Company
I am an artist...I am here to live out loud.
–Emile Zola
