"The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art."

Jana Sterbak, Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic [Vanitas: Vestido de Carne para Albino Anoréxico], 1987

"If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom." - Mark Rothko

Natalia LL, Post-consumer Art, 1975, colour photograph on paper, 50.5 x 60.5 cm, the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (MOCAK)

“I know that in my own work the best things are the things that just happened images that were suddenly caught and that I hadn’t anticipated. We don’t know what the unconscious is, but every so often something wells up in us. It sounds pompous nowadays to talk about the unconscious, so maybe it’s better to say ‘chance.’ I believe in a deeply ordered chaos and in the rules of chance.”

Francis Bacon quoted in 'Unnerving Art', article by Michael Kimmelman, New York Times Magazine August 20, 1989.

“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.”

― Donald W. Winnicott

"All great art comes from people who are either ugly or have a terrible inferiority complex."

- Richard Burton, born on this day in 1925