The secret of happiness

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.
Auguste Rodin

One always has to spoil a picture a little bit in order to finish it.
Eugene Delacroix

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
Albert Einstein

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.
Paul Klee

I dream my paintings, then I paint my dreams.
Vincent van Gogh

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
Claude Debussy

I draw like other people bite their nails.
Pablo Picasso

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk.
Why shouldn't painting be too?
Edgar Degas

Happiness

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.
Roy M. Goodman

In tristitia, hilaris, in hilaritate tristis
In sorrow, joyful; in joy, sorrowful
Giordano Bruno

All an artist should wish for

When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred spirit who understands you. And you do not need a host of such spirits.
Is that not all an artist should wish for?
Camille Pissarro

I am so rich that I must give myself away.
Egon Schiele

Pleasure

The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.
Odilon Redon

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession...
Karl Marx

Ce qui embellit le désert c'est qu'il cache un puits quelque part...
What makes the desert beautiful, is that somewhere it hides a well...
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

More poetry

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends--
It gives a lovely light!

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.
Georges Rouault

A test

The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them.
Lawren Harris

Agreement

Art and I have an agreement... I won't ask where we are going and art won't ask, "Why me?"
Bob Brendle

To love a painting is to feel that this presence is... not an object but a voice.
Andre Malraux

The artist fills space with an attitude.
Willem de Kooning

Baudelaire again

Cette vie est un hôpital où chaque malade est possédé du désir de changer de lit ..
This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds...
Charles Baudelaire