Gustave Flaubert

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Mies van der Rohe

My thoughts are guiding my hand, and my hand reveals the value of the thought.

Matisse Cutouts

At first, Matisse worried that working with cut paper was cheating—a shortcut to painting—and he kept it a secret. “It is necessary not to say anything about this,” he wrote to his son Pierre, in 1931. 
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/moma-cutouts-sophie-matisse?int-cid=mod-latest

Cecily Brown

Something that’s just glimpsed seems more real than something that’s fully described.

Sherwood Anderson

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

Jack Chambers

Painting is a calculated response to perception.

http://www.aci-iac.ca/jack-chambers/biography