“The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.”
Ethel Barrymore
“True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.”
Albert Einstein
“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.”
Oscar Wilde
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
“The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.”
William Blake
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson