~Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

Pablo Picasso

~Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed; contemplating it, everyone can create a story at the will of his imagination and.. with a single glance.. have his soul invaded by the most profound recollections; no effort of memory, everything is summed up in one instant. A complete art which sums up all the others and completes them.

Paul Gauguin

~By nature I am curious about life, and this extends to my business.

Richard Branson

~I know some people think one leads a glamorous life, but I must admit I've never felt that myself. Even when you've sat here in Hollywood with a swimming pool out there, I still feel my life is just as a working artist, actually.

David Hockney

~Lack of clarity is probably more responsible for frustration and underachievement than any other single factor.

Brian Tracy

~I'm not looking for images, They just appear and take on an interest. Sometimes you look at a thing and it has no interest and then you see it in a different way and it has another meaning. Or something that was of no use will become useful.

Jasper Johns

~You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.

Salvador Dali

~One has the advantage when you're very young that you've nothing to lose. Later on things become a burden, I think your past work sometimes becomes a burden.

David Hockney

~My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.

Claude Monet

~What is life, but a series of inspired follies?.

George Bernard Shaw

~He (Vincent) has painted a few portraits which have turned out well, but he always does them for no payment. It is a pity that he does not want to earn something, for if he did want to he could make something here, but you can't change a person..

Theo van Gogh