The beginning of adolescence seems to mark the abrupt end of artistic development in terms of drawing skills for many adults. As children, they confronted an artistic crisis, a conflict between their increasingly complex perceptions of the world around them and their current level of art skill.
Betty Edwards
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
I have a gift for silence - to show with my body the weight of my soul.
Marcel Marceau - French pantomime (b. 1923)
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
William Hazlitt