Conscience is a man’s compass. —Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch painter

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If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. —Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch painter

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? —Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch painter

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Television is becoming a collage — there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different. —David Hockney, British artist

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Every positive value has its price in negative terms … the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. —Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist

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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. —Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist

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The chief enemy of creativity is “good” sense. —Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist

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What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn’t everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist. —Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist

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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. —Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist

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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. —Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist

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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. —William Blake, British poet

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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. —William Blake, British poet

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