Art is a lie that makes us realise truth.

Pablo Picasso.

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess.  Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

Jackson Pollock

By the work, one knows the workman.

Jean de La Fontaine.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Anatole France

Art hurts.  Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.

Gwendolyn Brooks.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.

Pablo Picasso

I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.

Georgia O’Keeffe

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Francis Bacon

The painting has a life of its own. 

I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Henry Ellis