Great art can only be created out of love. ~ James Baldwin

You bring to a painting your own experience. ~ Jacob Lawrence

Art is a way of possessing destiny. ~ Marvin Gaye, African American Quotations

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible. ~ Toni Cade Bambara

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all. ~ Pablo Casals

Picasso believed that drawing is a means of possessing a thing... I draw what I love as a means of keeping it. ~ Nancy Reinke, Artist's Sketchbook, June 2005

Once I heard it stated and now I believe it to be true that there is no true art without religion. The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion. ~ Emily Carr

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. ~ W. H. Auden

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well. ~ Jean Toomer

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. ~ Piet Mondrian

All art is communication of the artist’s ideas, sounds, thoughts. ~ Lionel Hampton

Van Gogh: $12 million. Rembrandt: $13 million. Vermeer: $30 million. Gauguin: $39 million. You wouldn't guess it from these rock-star price tags, but all these artists died in poverty. ~ Joseph Hart, Utne, Sept-Oct 2005

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