"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen." 
-Leonardo da Vinci

"I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw  a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs." 
-Gillian Flynn (Dark Places)

"We write  to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect." 
-Anaïs Nin

"To  photograph  is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy." 
-Henri Cartier-Bresson (The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers)

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the  music." 
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Graphical excellence  is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space." 
-Edward R. Tufte (The Visual Display of Quantitative Information)

"Wherever you are, at any moment, try and find something beautiful. A face, a line out of a poem, the clouds out of a window, some graffiti, a wind farm. Beauty cleans the mind." 
-Matt Haig (Reasons to Stay Alive)