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1. Beauty will save the world. -Dosteovsky
2. Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. -Oscar Wilde
4. Art is the lie that enables us to learn the truth. -Pablo Picasso
5. Art is a wound turned into light. -Georges Braque
6. To create a work of art is to create the world. -Wassily Kandinsky
7. Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind. -Magdalena Abakanowicz
8. Art that cannot shape society and therefore also cannot penetrate the heart questions of society, and in the end influence the question of capital, is no art. -Joseph Beuys
9. Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented – which is what fear and anxiety do to a person – into something whole. Louise Bourgeois
11. Art is the daughter of freedom. Friedrich Schiller
12. Art gives people a reason to be alive. -Marilyn Mason
13. What is possible in art becomes thinkable in life. -Brian Eno
14. The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before. -Neil Gaiman
15. I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could. -Georgia O’Keefe
16. One of the functions of art is to give people the words to know their own experiences. -Ursula K. Le Guin
18. Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale ‘til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. A simple line painted with a brush can lead to freedom and happiness. -Joan Miro
20. Art brings people back to their sensibility as human beings. This is the purpose of art: To bring people together and bring back the humanity as well. -eL Seed
21. Making art changes the world by changing the artist who makes it. -Erica Leibandt
22. Art begins with resistance, at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. -Andre Gide
23. There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun. -Pablo Picasso
24. To my mind a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful and pretty. There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them. -Pierre-Auguste Renoir
26. Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them? -Bob Dylan
27. If you create, the world becomes more beautiful, far more beautiful. Less and less is ugly if every day you recognize beautiful forms in ugliness and learn to love them. -Erich Ohser
28. A science or an art may be said to be “useful” if its development increases, even indirectly, the material well-being and comfort of men, it promotes happiness, using that word in a crude and commonplace way. -G.H. Hardy
29. We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. -John F. Kennedy
30. Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them. -Anais Nin
31. Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. -Neil Gaiman
Diana has been an artist for over 26 years and has training in drawing, painting, digital drawing and graphic design. Diana’s latest obsession is digitally drawing with Procreate and creating t-shirt designs with Canva. Diana has experience selling her art across a number of platforms and loves helping other artists learn how to make money from their art as well.