Beauty and the Artist-

Beautious art, brought to us from heaven, so devine a power, to he that strives with every nerve.

If I was born from art, from birth given a prey for burning beauty to devour, I blame the mistress I was born to serve.

~Michelangelo.

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." ~Michelangelo

"A great artist is always ahead of his time or behind it." ~George Edward Moore

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

"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision." ~James Whistler

"Every good painter paints what he is." ~Jackson Pollock

"I cry out for order and find it only in art." ~Helen Hayes

"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture." ~Michelangelo