“Everything you can imagine is real.”

-Pablo Picasso

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

-Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” 

-Pablo Picasso

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

-Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” 

- Émile Zola