Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Winston Churchill

tradition, art, innovation

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

ourselves, enables, art

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Anais Nin

breathe, writing, art

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

execute, higher, art

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Albert Camus

freedom, art lives, imposes

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Pablo Picasso

purpose, art, daily

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Albert Einstein

art,life,artist

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Oscar Wilde

artist, things, really

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Pablo Picasso