Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. - George Bernard Shaw

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. - Michelangelo

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid. - Jules Feiffer

All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul. Purple is not just a noun and an adjective but also a verb - when you look at it, it's looking back at you. - Uniek Swain

Architecture begins where engineering ends. - Walter Gropius

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. - G.K. Chesterton

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. - Marie Laurencin

Art is Man's nature. Nature is god's art. - James Bailey

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. - John Ruskin