Art pages are little rooms of wonder — places where imagination opens its hands and lets color spill through. Mikhail Baryshnikov reminds us that the heart of art is “pleasure giving pleasure,” a quiet offering from one soul to another. These quotes gather that spirit: the whispered truths, the bold experiments, the tender risks that help us see our own lives with fresher eyes.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe. ~ Ernst Haas

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious. ~ Andrew Wyeth

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child. ~ James Gibbons Huneker

Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. ~ Keith Haring

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing. ~ Robert Henri

My drawing began as a way to count my blessings. To study, capture, catalog the things that, despite it all, make my life rich. ~ Danny Gregory

Even Michelangelo on his deathbed thought he’d done nothing to ennoble art. He wanted to destroy his work—the Pieta! …this eternal dissatisfaction of the artist is what I was talking about. ~ John Huston

Painting is with me but another word for feeling. ~ John Constable

A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament. ~ Emile Zola

I'm working in my mind. ~ Jasper Johns

Art owes nothing to justification. ~ Christo

Art is a place where you can be wild. Kids — all of us — need that. ~ Helen Hunt

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. ~ Helen Frankenthaler

The artist has a special task and duty: the task of reminding men of their humanity and the promise of their creativity. ~ Lewis Mumford

It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand. ~ Le Douanier Rousseau

I have so many ideas my hands are very busy. The ideas just keep coming. ~ Yayoi Kusama