"One day I made a drawing of a hillside. The wind was blowing. I chose three forms from the planes on the sides of the trees, and three colors, and black and white. From these was made a rhythmic painting which expressed the spirit of the whole thing."
— Arthur Dove

"The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order that reveal themselves both in nature and the world of thought. Individual existence impresses him as a sort of prison, and he wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole."
— Albert Einstein

"I realized that, when we look at any object around us and walking around among other things subsequently, we have to bring it up into a conscious plane because...when we look at the next thing in sequence to the first object that we have gazed at, there's still an overtone carried over of what the retina has just previously recorded.
— Charles Sheeler

"Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. Every great idea I’ve ever had grew out of work itself."
— Chuck Close