I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells.
— Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss)

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
— Michelangelo

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
— Henry David Thoreau

They can always copy what you've done, but they can never copy what you're going to do.
 —Philip Glass

Art is not technique and technique is not art.
—Bruno Munari

The purpose of my art is to tickle the mind.
—DAC

If you find yourself in the majority, it is time to reconsider.
—Mark Twain

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
—?

Funny is money. 
—Tracy Ullman

Do not fear mistakes, there are none. 
 —Miles Davis

My creativity heals myself and others. 
—Julia Comeron

There can be no art without heart. 
—Anna Pavlova

An idea can turn to dust or magic...
depending on the talent that rubs against it. 
—William Bernbach

To find yourself, think for yourself.
— Socrates       

If you’re not busy being born, you’re busy dying.
  —Bob Dylan

Modern Art invites you to bring your own perspective.
  —?

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
  —Paul Gauguin

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
 —Igor Stravinsky

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
 —Dale Carnegie

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
  —Ansel Adams

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
  —John Ciardi

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
  —Henri Matisse

I paint with shapes.
  —Alexander Calder

The problem, not a theory nor a style, determines the solution.
—?

The perfection is in the imperfection.  
—Jyoti Mishra  (aka White Town)

It takes a heap of sense to write nonsense. 
—Mark Twain

Form follows function.
—Louis Sullivan

Here's to the Crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent.
 They Imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward. Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that has never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people. While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world,
are the ones who do. Think Different. 
—Steve Jobs

It's got to sell, I've got to live. 

—D. H. Lawrence

A mind is like a parachute, it must be open to function.

and in French...

Le cerveau comme le parachute, doit être ouvert pour fonctionner
—Pierre Daninos

 Men who never get carried away should be.  
 —Malcom Forbes

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that is that they've had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.
—Steve Jobs

If I had all the money I had spent on food and drink, I would spend it on food and drink. 
—David Pelham