我不畫我所看見的，我畫我所知道的
--畢卡索
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

一個偉大的藝術家,他的感情是屬於時代的
--胡一川
 A great artist, whose feelings belong to the times

在油畫的後面，跳動著畫家的脈膊，在塑像之中，呼吸著雕刻家的靈魂。
--里爾夫 
 Behind the oil paintings, the artist's pulse beats, and among the statues, the sculptor's soul breathes.

一個人為了要把自己體驗過的感情傳達給別人，於是在自己心理從新喚起這種感情，並用某種外在的標誌把它表達出來——這就是藝術的起源
--托爾斯泰 
The individual, in order to convey to others the feelings he has experienced, evokes them in his own psyche and expresses them with some external sign - this is the origin of art.

這世界並不缺少美，而是缺少發現
--羅丹 
Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her.

藝術是一種使我們達到真實的假想。
--畢卡索  
Art is an illusion that allows us to achieve reality.