"Art is literacy of the heart" ~ Elliot Eisner

"Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us." ~ Roy Adzak

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." ~ Henry Ward Beecher

"Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing." ~ Marc Chagall

"Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create." ~ Nicole Malebranche

"Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind." ~ Louise Nevelson

"Imagination is the true magic carpet." ~ Norman Vincent Peale

The Lake Isle of Innisfree
William Butler Yeats

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart's core.