“Yet it was precisely these points which marked out van Gogh's own view of beauty, based on the people in his environment, who were admittedly not beautiful, but who embodied his idea of truth.”

“I put my heart and soul into my work, and have half lost my mind in the process.' Van Gogh”

“To be attached to one's dreams and yet to advocate reality constituted no contradiction in Chagall's eyes.”

“Changes in societal structure and in art would possess more creditbility if they had their origins in the soul & spirit. If people read the words of the prophets with closer attention, they would find the keys to life. -Marc Chagall”

“When children paint, they express their ideas rather than their perception, and when Picasso had recourse to such a technique, then that was his personal response to his approaching death.”

“and I am quite sure that they are worth being painted.”

“To create works of art meant no less to him than to paint life, not mere reality, but the principle of life.”