"When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared back at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"
        - Howard Ikemoto

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
        - Pablo Picasso

"Art, poetry and music are matters of survival. They are guardians and makers of the unbroken chain of what's oldest and first in the human spirit. They are charged with maintaining the aboriginal movements in the latest edition of man; they make young and immediate what is first and oldest in the spirit of man."
        - Sir Laurens van der Post

"The performers were performing for what we would call God. It's performing in a way that is not just for the critics or the writers or the money or the audience, but is a giving back. It's a responsibility to who you are as a person in the world."
        - Julie Taymor

"The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable."
        - Robert Henri

"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
        - Francis Bacon

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."
        - Albert Einstein

"The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working rapport is established between the artist and his creation."
        - Jerry Uelsmann

"You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and receptive, though, one day a butterfly will land on your finger."
        - Chuck Jones

"I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle and filter through. At a certain point it seems like fruitless activity because you're taking a lot of time and not seeming to get anything. And then, slowly, you realize you've actually digested elements and that your thinking is being freed up and the way you build up compositions is changed as a result of what you've been listening to."
        - Peter Gabriel

"I'm always trying to swim to new ground."
        - P.J. Harvey

"What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art."
        - Wendy Carlos

"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame."
        - G. K. Chesterton

"In a roomful of shouting people, the one who whispers becomes interesting."
        - Peter Schmidt

"Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere." I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?"
        - Richard P. Feynman

"Science is everything we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else."
        - Donald Knuth

"The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows."
        - Frank Zappa