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"This direction is sterile and without hope to those who wish to give painting a richer and more human meaning and a wider scope."

Edward Hopper

The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.

Drew Endy

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

Steve Lacy

“That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.”

Albert Einstein

"God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands."

Mahalia Jackson

“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”

Saint Augustine

I felt like poisoning a monk.

Umberto Eco (1932 - ), on why he wrote the novel "The Name of the Rose."

“When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”

Pablo Picasso

"When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation."

Jean-Jacques Annaud

“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”

Charles Dicken