“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.” Marc Chagall

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way … things I
had no words for.” Georgia O’Keeffe

“Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” Andy Warhol

“I paint for myself. I don’t know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.” Francis Bacon

“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.” Paul Cezanne

“The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.” Lucian Freud