"I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process."

~Vincent van Gogh

 " I would like to paint the way a bird sings."

Claude Monet

"The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes."

Marc Chagall

"There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present."

~Rene' Magritte

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

~Oscar Wilde

"Great art picks up where nature ends."

~Marc Chagall

"Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses, or kindnesses."

Rembrandt Van Rijn~

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—

 While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

From: The Raven - 1845
~Edgar Allan Poe

This would be an unforgettable mashup~

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

Michelangelo-

Leaving X and Meta behind. Its a brand new day.