“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.” ~Emerson

"Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet." ~Katharine Lee Bates

"One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well." ~Van Gogh

"More is more and less is a bore" ~Iris Apfel

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus" ~Mark Twain

"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts" ~Marcus Aurelius

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are" -Theodore Roosevelt

"If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes" ~Pablo Picasso

"You have to be willing to spend time making things for no reason" ~Lynda Barry

"What more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars." ~Victor Hugo

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong" ~Joseph Chilton Pearce

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those could not hear the music" ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"Learn to silence your inner critic. He is a jerk." ~Unknown

"I live in my own little world. But it's ok, they know me here." ~Lauren Myracle

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use the more you have." ~Maya Angelou

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." ~Bertrand Russell

"...the very seeing of beauty is an art." ~Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." ~Banksy

"Your imagination is a weapon of mass construction." ~Unknown

"...just because people throw it out and don't have any use for it, doesn't mean it's garbage" ~Andy Warhol

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces. ~Shane Koyczan

"You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul" ~Mary Oliver

"It's not hoarding If it ends up in a journal" ~Ilse Kleijer

"Beauty exists not in what is seen and remembered, but in what is felt and not forgotten" ~Johnatan Jena

"What matters most is how well you walk through the fire." ~Charles Bukowski

"In a time of destruction, create something" ~Maxine Hong Kingston

"Creative people don't have a mess. They have ideas lying everywhere" ~Unknown

"Done is better than perfect." ~Sheryl Sandberg

"Have no fear of perfection. You'll never reach it." ~Salvador Dalí

"I hope that someday when I'm gone, someone, somewhere, picks my soul up off of these pages and thinks: "I would have loved her" - Nicole Lyons

"We have art in order not to die of the truth." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"Fill the paper with the breathings of your heart." ~William Wordsworth

"Whatever it is that stirs your soul, listen to that. Everything else is just noise." ~Nicole Lyons

"Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing." - Camille Pissarro

"Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks." ~Golda Meir

"Let nothing come between you and the light. ~Henry David Thoreau

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." ~ Mark Twain 

"...it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world..." - Mary Oliver 

"The day will be what you make it, so rise like the sun and burn" ~William C. Hannan

"Color is a power which directly influences the soul" ~Wassily Kandinsky 

"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before" ~Neil Gaiman