Rene Magritte
“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art…
Alfred Eisenstaedt
“When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.”
Claude Bernard
“Art is I; science is we.”
Marianne Moore
“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”
Arne Jacobsen
“If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.”
Joseph Joubert
“Imagination is the eye of the soul.”
Roy Lichtenstein
“Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.”
Frida Kahlo
“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I…
Raoul Dufy
“My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.”
Jerzy Kosinski
“The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Space is the breath of art.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.”
Andre Gide
“There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.”
Harry S Truman
“Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.”
Egon Schiele
“Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.”
Ernst Fischer
“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”
Samuel Beckett
“To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist…
Paul Cezanne
“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”
Albert Einstein
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.”
Amy Lowell
“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of…
John Singer Sargent
“A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.”
Georges Braque
“There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.”
Andrew Wyeth
“It’s all in how you arrange the thing… the careful balance of the design is…
Vincent Van Gogh
“I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.”
Thomas Merton
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
Pierre Bonnard
“The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.”
Susan Sontag
“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.”
Georgia O’Keeffe
“To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.”
Voltaire
“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We…