“The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.”– Arthur Koestler Related Quotes “Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.”– Paul Cezanne “Nature is the art of God.”– Dante Alighieri “The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.”– Pablo Picasso