Peter Ustinov

"If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue."

Steve Lacy

"I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed."

John Zorn

"I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages."

Mark Twain

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

Honore de Balzac

"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."

George Jean Nathan

"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness."

George Sand

"The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart."

Duke Ellington

"Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it."