“Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” 
― Leonardo da Vinci

"Control, apparently, is not the answer.  People who need certainty in their lives are less likely to make art that is risky, subversive, complicated, iffy, suggestive or spontaneous.  What's really needed is nothing more than a broad sense of what you are looking for, some strategy for how to find it, and an overriding willingness to embrace mistakes and surprises along the way.  Simply put, making art is chancy - it doesn't mix well with predictability.  Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art.  And tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to succeeding."  ~Art & Fear

"The artist is nothing without gift, but gift is nothing without work." ~Emile Zola

When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.

~Herophilus

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart. - Vincent van Gogh

Creativity means letting go of trying to be "perfect"...it means being willing to be wild, silly and downright outrageous." -Christine Mason Miller

"Children, like animals, use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again." -Eudora Welty

"Still there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me" - VanGogh

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." - Picasso

"Art is not a thing; it is a way." Hubbard

"Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe." -Rumi