The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. - Thomas Merton

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it is produced the most extraordinary results in human culture. - Henry Ward Beecher

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso