“There are things that are not sayable,

that’s why we have art.”

                                             – Leonora Carrington

I suspect that what you’re looking for is something that will actually confirm that you’re a human being.
We all have this terrible feeling of isolation and loneliness.
Art is a signpost.
It’s the thing that we do that makes us realize that we’re not alone.
It’s the communication of the human spirit.
It’s the one area where you mustn’t have caution or inhibition.
You have to be prepared to crash your plane and walk away from it.

                                                                                    – David Bowie

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro on Leonardo da Vinci–

“What an artist brings to the world is a way of gazing into it.

Can you look at it from my eyes?

That’s the greatest gift an artist brings.”

“The artist is the medium

between his fantasies

and the rest of the world.”

                                                                                           –Federico Fellini

The object isn’t to make art,

it’s to be in that wonderful state

that makes art inevitable.

              – Robert Henri

“The world is full of magic things,

patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”

                                                  – William Butler Yeats.

If you want to know

where your heart is,

look to where your mind

goes when it wanders.

                                                                – Walt Whitman

"Man is hungry for beauty.

There is a void."

 – Oscar Wilde

“… a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive, at least a little bit.”

                                                            Kurt Vonnegut