"I've had all these wonderful people around me," he said. "But as an artist, I can't spend too much time with them."

                                    remy charlip

"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. ~ George Bernard Shaw"

Without fear and illness, I could never have
accomplished all I have. -Edvard Munch

When the subject is strong, simplicity is the
only way to treat it.-Jacob Lawrence

Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.-Claude Monet

How important are the visual arts in our society?
I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course I
could be prejudiced. I am a visual art. -Kermit the Frog, muppet

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. -Pablo Ruiz y Picasso

If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun. -Edgar Degas

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know
to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. -William Morris

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with
thoughts. -Sir Joshua Reynolds

My contribution to the world is my ability to
draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many
people as I can for as long as I can. Drawing is
still basically the same as it has been since
prehistoric times. It brings together man and the
world. It lives through magic. -Keith Haring

"Painting is easy for those that do not know how,
but very difficult for those that do!"~ Edgar Degas

"A painting is never finished - it simply stops
in interesting places." ~ Paul Gardner

"Art is either plagiarism or revolution." ~ Paul Gaugin

"When my daughter was about seven years old, she
asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I
worked at the college- that my job was to teach
people how to draw. She stared back at me,
incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?" ~ Howard Ikemoto

Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through
a creative mind." ~ Louise Nevelson

"I just feel that I'm in tune with the right
vibrations in the universe when I'm in the
process of working." ~ Louise Nevelson

"One day seven years ago I found myself saying to
myself -- I can't live where I want to -- I can't
go where I want to go--I can't do what I want to
-- I can't even say what I want to --....I
decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least
paint as I wanted to." ~ Georgia O'Keeffe, 1923

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
"The artist is the antenna of the race." ~ Ezra Pound (from the book, "Art & Physics" by Leonard Schlain)

"I want to thank anyone who spends part of their
day creating, I don't care if it's a book, a film, a painting, a dance,a piece of theater, a piece of music--anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us--I think this world would be unlivable without art and I thank you." ~ Steve Soderbergh (winner of the 2001 Academy Award for Directing "Traffic." He also directed "Erin Brockovich.")

"I often think the night is more alive and more
richly colored than the day." -Vincent Van Gogh

Now keep in mind that I'm an artist, and I'm sensitive about my shit ~ EBadu

"Look at small children. A doll becomes a living and conscious thing for them. They converse with the doll, feed it, sleep with it. What gives life to the doll? The child's love for it, isn't it. Love can transform even a mere object into a living conscious thing." ~ Amma

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -Albert Einstein

surely i will starve, but i'm better off yet -adee good