Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Simonidies

Art is not handicraft, it's a transmission of the of feeling the artist has experienced.

Leo Tolstoy

Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known.

Oscar Wilde

Art is imposing of a pattern on experience and our aesthetic enjoyment is the recognition of the pattern.

A.N. Whitehead

Abstract truth may belong to science and metaphysics, but the world of reality belongs to Art.

Rabindranath Tagore