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“I end up standing in front of the nearby painting with my arms and legs open wide, flapping them around and doing a damn…

— Elle Casey

“There’s something about doing a job well that is akin to art.”

— Kiran Nagarkar

“Art is a spirit and soul thing. Anything else is mere desperation.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element…

— Willa Cather

“We want our artists to take the mundane materials of our lives, run it through their imaginations, and surprise us.”

— Twyla Tharp

Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.

— Edmund Wilson

“The art does not always mimic the artist. You never know the real person until you slide beneath their surface”

— Lisa Renee Jones

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

— Paul Cezanne

“Paint, for the Impressionists, became a medium whose material properties were being celebrated as opposed to being disguised behind the artifice of a pictorial…

— Will Gompertz

“His art springs out of bubbling underground necessity, as if he's somehow dipping himself into the river that gave him life; he's making dream…

— Anne Lamott

“My work is the art I paint on the canvas of my life. Hopefully I'm creating a masterpiece.”

— L.R.W. Lee

“Sometimes, you have to step into oblivion, in order to paint success.”

— Lionel Suggs