“Creativity takes courage. ” 

― Henri Matisse

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone” 

― Pablo Picasso

“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” 

― Oscar Wilde

“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.” 

― Clive Barker, Days of Magic, Nights of War

“I want to meet a guy named Art. I'd take him to a museum, hang him on the wall, criticize him, and leave.” 

― Jarod Kintz, I Want

“Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know.” 

― Groucho Marx

“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.” 

― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country