Artist Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows of our…

— Fernando Pessoa

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

— Virginia Woolf

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

— Clarence Darrow

Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of our own…

— Jon Anderson

The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

— Terence McKenna

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

— Sam Francis

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole…

— Albert Einstein

I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.

— Robert Henri

With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The…

— Eric Sevareid

I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings.

— Richard Schmid

“It's dark times like these that present us the canvas where we paint our own greatness.”

— Richard Paul Evans

I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.

— Anais Nin