Right now a moment of time is fleeting by!

Capture its reality in paint!

To do that we must put all else out of our minds,

We must become that moment,

make ourselves a sensitive recording plate…

Give the image of what we actually see,

forgetting everything

that has been seen before our time.       

Paul Cezanne

Every child is an artist.  

The problem is how to remain one

when you grow up.

Pablo Picasso

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Gaugin

Inside you there's and artist you don't know about…

Say yes quickly, if you know,

if you've known it before

the beginning of the Universe.

Rumi

The purpose of art is not a rarefied, intellectual distillate -

it is life, intensified, brilliant life.

Mission

To live a creative life,

we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Pearce

ART SAVES LIVES

Trust that still, small voice that says,

  “This might work and I'll try it.

Mariechild

We did not all come over on the same ship,

but we are all in the same boat

Bernard Baruch

Whatever you dream you can do. Do it!

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Begin it now!

Goethe

Painting is the silence of thought

and the music of sight

Orphan Pamuk

The most potent muse of all

is our own inner child

Stephen Nachmanovitch

We have been taught to believe

that negative equals realistic and

positive equals unrealistic.

Susan Jeffers

There is no must in art

because art is free

Kandinsky

Imagination is more important

than knowledge

Albert Einstein

The world of reality has its limits,

  the world of imagination is boundless

Rousseau

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing

does the painter do good things

Degas

The job of the artist is

always to deepen the mystery

Bacon

The function of the creative artist

consists of making laws,

not in following laws already made

Busoni

Creativity is really

the structuring of magic

Ann Rush

Beauty if as relative as light and dark

Paul Klee

There are two ways to live your life.  

One is a though nothing is a miracle.

  The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation,

it's a form of magic.

Pablo Picasso

It takes a long time to become young.

Pablo Picasso

To do anything original you have to have

the confidence or bloody mindedness to be yourself,

to stand alone against popular opinion if need be.

Jim Greenhalf

Good art is a form of prayer.  

It is a way to say what is not sayable.

Frederich Busch

Art has process is a meditative activity.  

True painting is prayer:

it happens when everything inside and outside

joins in one action.

Pablo Picasso

Colour is directly connected to a particular vibration,

when used properly, will connect the brain almost instantly

to that which it seeks to know.

Rael

The return of the magical can only happen

with the return of innocence.

The essence of the wizard is transformation

Deepak Chopra