Salvador Dali

"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details."

Andy Warhol

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

Henry Ward Beecher

"Every artist writes his own autobiography."

Henry Ellis

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."

Pablo Picasso

"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."

Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product."

Edward Steichen

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

Oscar Wilde

"Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them."

Thomas Paine

"Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul."

Louis Kahn

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads."

Erica Jong

"Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."

Andy Warhol

"Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation."

Charles Baudelaire

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."

William Wordsworth

"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together."

John Ruskin

"For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"For half a century photography has been the art form of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? to the designer of the camera? To the finger on the button? tso the law of averages?"

Gore Vidal

"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."

Pablo Picasso

"Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout."

Melvin Maddocks

"Great art picks up where nature ends."

Marc Chagall

"Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, How good or how bad am I? That's where courage comes in."

Erma Bombeck

"Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?"

Peter Kropotkin

"I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more."

Marc Chagall

"I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes."

Bette Midler

"I am a deeply superficial person."

Andy Warhol