Celebration Quote by Carey Mercer

“There's a reason why I tell this story. To me these Sunday painters represent myo—the strangeness of beauty—an idea that transcendence can be found…

— Lydia Minatoya

“A lover of comfort might shrug after looking at the whole apparent jumble of furniture, old paintings, statues with missing arms and legs, engravings…

— Ivan Goncharov

The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.

— Susan Rothenberg

The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That's cool.

— Jimi Hendrix

“It’s a question of legacy. Who else will do this work but us? The men who rarely include them in retrospectives? The visitors who…

— Stephanie Dupal

“The music interrupted mockingbirds and cardinals and half-hour church bells. It was at times orchestral and at times a cappella, a mighty love song…

— Rita Leganski

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with,…

— Samuel R. Delany

There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, which by…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The artist injects the spirit of life into a culture.

— L. Ron Hubbard

The paintings live because their creator has been passionately attentive to their theme, and his attention has left something for us to look at.…

— Lucian Freud

I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.

— Vincent Van Gogh

It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills…

— Charles Baudelaire