Art is to console those who are broken by life

Vincent van Gogh

I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live

Yayoi Kusama

I think that personal feelings, sentimentality and those sorts of emotions, are not art but that universal emotions like happiness are art

Agnes Martin