Arrange what pieces come your way.
- Virginia Woolf
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain
Art teaches nothing except the significance of life.
- Arthur Miller
Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
- James G. Huneker
Beauty will save the world.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.
- Zimbabwe proverb
I don't want music to be a matter of comfort but of expansion of the spirit.
- Violinist Gidon Kremer, as quoted in The Guardian
We have art in order not to die of life.
- Albert Camus
I paint in order not to cry.
- Paul Klee
Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.
- Isadora Duncan
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
-Pablo Picasso
As a suffering creature, I cannot do without something greater than I -- something that is my life -- the power to create.
- Vincent Van Gogh
We have art so that we may not perish by the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Pablo Picasso
A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.
- Paul Gardner
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
- Albert Einstein
Art is a lie that helps us to realize the truth.
- Pablo Picasso
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
- Edward Hopper
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
- Rene-Francois-Ghislain Magritte
I shut my eyes in order to see.
- Paul Gauguin
The only cats worth anything are the cats who take chances. Sometimes I play things that I never heard myself.
- Thelonius Monk
I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.
- Daniel Pinkwater
One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world -- to contain it, and to make it in some sense intelligible, communicable. And bearable.
- Oliver Sacks
When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for.
- Coco Chanel
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
- Friedrich Nietzsche