some quotes from artists and writers
- Alberto Giacometti
- Antoni Tapies
- Art and Fear - David Bayles and Ted Orland
- David Conn
- Eric Fischl
- Fritz Scholdner
- Jim Dine
- Joan Miro
- Julian Schnabel
- Leonard Baskin
- Louis Armstrong
- Manuel Neri
- Mary Frank
- Milton Resnick
- Nathan Oliveira
- Philip Guston
- Picasso
- Richard Diebenkorn
- Robert Henri
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Stan Getz
- Stephen De Staebler
- Susan Rothenberg
- Thomas H. Garver, Author
- Thomas Merton