Grandma Moses

"Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy."

William Ralph Inge

"Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art."

Saul Bellow

"What is art but a way of seeing?"

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."

Willa Cather

"The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is."

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down."

Vladimir Nabokov

"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."

Walter Annenberg

"People who think about art as an investment are pathetic."