“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.” – Federico Fellini

“Art is to console those who are broken by life.” – Vincent van Gogh

“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” – Oscar Wilde

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.” – Friedrich Nietzsche