​"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one." - Stella Adler​

​"The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness." ​

Painting is poetry That is seen rather than felt, And Poetry is Painting that is Felt rather than seen - Leonardo Da vinci​

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

Art Enables us to Find​ Ourselves and Lose Ourselves at the same time - Thomas Merton

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." — Author Anais Nin.