Richard Schmid wrote:

"Somewhere within all of us there is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some way, a part that has remained unchanged since we were children—the source of our strength and compassion. This faint confluence of the tangible and the spiritual is where Art comes from. It has no known limits, and once you tap into it you will realize what truly rich choices you have.


May each painting you do from that sacred place include an expression of gratitude for the extraordinary privilege of being an artist. . . ."

Ask and it shall be given unto you. Seek and ye shall find. --Luke 11:9

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul. --Wassily Kandinsky

The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live. --Albert Pinkham Ryder

Painting is a state of being...Painting is self-discovery. Every good painter paints what he is. --Jackson Pollock

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. --Stella Adler

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens. --Carl Jung

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say ""he feels deeply, he feels tenderly." --Vincent van Gogh

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. --Samuel Butler
(Thanks to Ben Rayman for contributing this quote.)

Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." --Pablo Picasso

Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. --Rainer Maria Rilke

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling. --Susan Langer