Thomas Eakins

Rubens is the nastiest most vulgar noisy painter that ever lived . . . his pictures always put me in mind of chamber pots.  (Letter to his father)

Kasimir Edschmidt 

Art is only a step on the road to God. (1923)

Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

It is the theory that determines what can be observed.

T.S. Eliot

Poets today in our civilization have to be difficult because they are responding to contemporary experience which is fragmentary, elusive, multi-perspectival.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Roy Emmins 
   (born 1939)

Once you had to be a genius to make works of art.  Now you have to be a
genius to understand them.