"Art is the signature of civilizations."
Beverly Sills
"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."
James McNeil Whistler
"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."
Simonides
"Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication."
Claus Oldenburg
"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting."
Fernando Botero
'Abstract' literally means to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract... a realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts."
Richard Diebenkorn
"Abstract art isn't simply a lack of realism. It's rather a heightened depiction of what the subject really is."
Curtis Verdun
"If you work with abstract painting for a period of time, you may come to think of it as a melody, a song, a piece of beautiful music."
Judy Betts
"I applied streaks and blobs of colours onto the canvas with a palette knife and I made them sing with all the intensity I could..."
Wassily Kandinsky
"Art is what delineates the technically-correct dancer from the dancer who has skill and passion!"
Curtis Verdun
"To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and commonsense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams."
Giorgio DeChirico
