Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor's ability to let his intuition guide him over the gap between conception and realization without compromising the integrity of the original idea. - Barbara Hepworth
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. – Georgia O'Keeffe
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. – Henry Ward Beecher
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing. – Georgia O'Keeffe
If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. – Edward Hopper
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. – Pablo Picasso
The work of art is a scream of freedom. – Christo
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. – Edgar Degas
Great art picks up where nature ends. – Marc Chagall
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. - Jerzy Kosinski
