A Master of Art is not worth a fart.
- Andrew Boorde

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."

- C. S. Lewis

“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.”
― David McCullough

“As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” 

- Amy Poehler

"He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart, is an artist." - St Francis of Assisi

• "Art is not a handicraft. It is the transmission of a feeling which the artist has experienced."--Leo Tolstoy 

Artistic temperament...sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity, wrestling.
- Madeleine L'Engle

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.  Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams