Art enables us to find ourselves
and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books. 

Charlie Chaplin ​​​

Art doesn’t have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful.

Duane Hanson

Creativity takes courage.

Henri Matisse

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. 

Karl Marx​​

Art should comfort the disturbed
and disturb the comfortable.

Banksy

Art is what you can get away with.

Andy Warhol

The art always wins.
Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

Ai Weiwei​

Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos. 

Igor Stravinsky

Be mad. 

Salvador Dali

We must never forget art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. 

John F. Kennedy

Be — don't try to become. 

Osho

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

True change is within.
Leave the outside as it is. 

Dalai Lama XIV

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. 

Andy Warhol​

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. 

Barack Obama

Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy