“The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.”
Lionel Trilling
“True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.”
Albert Einstein
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
Oscar Wilde
“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.”
“The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements”
Anais Nin
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination”
“I shut my eyes in order to see.”
Paul Gauguin
