Quote#2

"A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations." -Jacob Jampolsky

A person that has true creativity doesn't let any person tell them they cant achieve there goals. Though the goals may be tough and time consuming, they still keep that self belief that they can and they will.

Aesthetics

is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature ofbeauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics


To me means the personal view of what is beautiful

David Hockney

David Hockney, CH, RA, (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is based in Bridlington, Yorkshire, although he also maintains a base in London. An important contributor to the Pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century.^[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hockney

David Hockneys work to me is interesting and i like it a lot. he uses many different picture clips to make one large picture.  

Edward Ruscha

born December 16, 1937) is an American artist associated with the Pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking,drawing, photography, and film. Ruscha lives and works in Venice, California and in theMojave Desert.^[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Ruscha

Mandalas

Maṇḍala (मण्डल) is a Sanskrit word that means "circle". In the Hindu andBuddhist religious traditions, their sacred art often takes a mandala form. The basic form of most Hindu and Buddhist mandalas is a square with four gates containing a circle with a center point. Each gate is in the shape of a T.^[1][2]

Quote#1

"A man must rise above the Earth to the top of the atmosphere and beyond, for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives" — Socrates 


To me this quote means really seeing or digging deep into the things around you for a clearer view or better understanding. Sometimes people are very close minded and cant see past to anything new with all their problems in front of them. Some people just need to take a step back or take a breather to fully understand the situation.

Sandro Botticelli

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or Il Botticello"The Little Barrel"; (c. 1445^[1] – May 17, 1510) was an Italian painter of the Florentine schoolduring the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento). Less than a hundred years later, this movement, under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, was characterized by Giorgio Vasari as a "golden age", a thought, suitably enough, he expressed at the head of his Vita of Botticelli. His posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century; since then his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting. Among his best known works are The Birth of Venus and Primavera.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandro_Botticelli)

Maxfield Parrish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxfield_Parrish

Parrish's art features dazzlingly luminous colors; the color Parrish blue was named in acknowledgement. He achieved the results by means of a technique called glazing where bright layers of oil color separated by varnish are applied alternately over a base rendering 

 He attended Haverford College, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and Drexel Institute of Art. He entered into an artistic career that lasted for more than half a century, and which helped shape the Golden Age of illustration and the future of American visual arts.

To me his paintings show extreme happiness and a bit of romance and beauty. The bright colors catch your eye and lead you to see the fine detail Parrish has created.

Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan:

He was born October 22nd, 1912 and past away March 15th, 1999. His art work consists of crisp balck and white 

photos of his wife, daughter, and of the street and building scenes where he lived.

Albert Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand." - Albert Einstein


In my own words, Einstein's quote