Art Inspires:

Art liberates "My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit." --Rei Kawakubo #ArtInspires #ReiKawakubo #CommedesGarcons

Art architects "Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves." --Julia Morgan

Art is living out loud If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. –Emile Zola (Magic Garden, Philadelphia)

Art is poetry. Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. –Leonardo da Vinci (Henri Matisse, Dancers) #ArtInspires #HenriMatisse #Dancers

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou (The Age of Enlightenment—Antoine Lavoisler, by Yinka Shonibare) #Hirshhorn #YinkaShonibare

Art is not superficial "No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist." –Oscar Wilde (Picasso, Girl before a Mirror)

Art reveals "Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter." –Oscar Wilde (Andy Warhol by Alice Neel)

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. –Salvador Dali (The Persistence of Memory, MoMA)

Art is in the news – breaking, political, and deadly.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. –Oscar Wilde (Rei Kawakubo/Art of the In-Between, the Met, 2017)

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. --Pablo Picasso (Three Musicians, PMA and MoMA)

Art is never finished, only abandoned. –Leaonardo da Vinci (National Gallery of Art)

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. –Oscar Wilde (Whitney Museum of American Art, 2016)

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. –Albert Einstein (Emanation by Lampo Leong, Christies HK, 2016)

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. –Frida Kahlo (MoMa, 2017)

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together. –Malcolm Forbes (Lygia Pape, the Met Breuer, 2017)

To be an artist is to believe in life. –Henry Moore (The National Gallery in London, 2015)