For the following text, you might try substituting the words Artist, Painter, Writer, Actor with Photographer…or maybe Painting and Music, with Photograph…or Easel with Camera, and so on.

Glass – © John Neel

“All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.”-  Federico Fellini

“For the artist creation begins with vision. To see requires effort. Great love is needed to inspire this continuous striving towards truth, this generosity and profound laying bare that accompany the birth of any work of art. But isn’t love at the origin of all creation?’’ – Henri Matisse

“The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.” Paul Strand

“Every good painter paints what he is.” – Jackson Pollock

Slick – © John Neel

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” – Pablo Picasso

” The purpose of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”- Aristotle

“The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.” Pablo Picasso

“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.” – Anais Nin

“My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.” – Jimi Hendrix

“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.” – John Ruskin

Snake – © John Neel

“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

  “Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” – Edgar Degas

“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.” – Pablo Picasso

“My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.” – Jimi Hendrix

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