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

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Twyla Tharp

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
Stephen Sondheim

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Gustave Flaubert

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Gilbert K. Chesterton