“It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks... where written comments and personal notes provide an intimate insight into the magical mind of a working artist.” MindArtistWrittenEssenceNotesInsightIntimatePocketsCommentClosestNotebookSketchbooks Author:Eugene Delacroix
“The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.” ArtistDisciplineLifetimeOneselfIntimateNervesStrictSensitivity Book:Daybook: The Journal of an Artist Source: Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
“Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate self of the artist and the secret concurrences which he has perceived in things by means of a vision or intuition all his own, and not to be expressed in ideas and in words-expressible only in the work of art.” MeanArtIdeasSelfSpiritLyingArtistEffortSecretVisionCreativeArt IsIntuitionIntimateWorks Of ArtWellspringConcurrence Author:Jacques Maritain