There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. – Pablo Picasso
If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art. – Terri Guillemets
My inspiration is art… because without art, we would just be stuck with reality. – Daniel R. Lynch
…a bourgeois barrenness… depressingly alien from that dainty boudoir atmosphere of the artist-life she knew. – Israel Zangwill, Dreamers of the Ghetto, “From a Mattress Grave,” 1897
What you often see in a lesser work of art is a subject captured perfectly and never set free. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle
Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul — and you answer. – Terri Guillemets
His soul palpitating with love of art… – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919 [referring to Dirk Stroeve &mda
Picasso would give up cubism just to capture your curves. – Konfal Blyther
Any great work of art… revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. – Leonard Bernstein, What Makes Opera Grand?
Art is art, even when unsuccessful. – Danish Proverb
[I]t was a hymn to the beauty of the human form… and the praise of Nature, sublime, indifferent, lovely, and cruel. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919
A portrait has one advantage over its original: it is unconscious; and you may therefore admire without insulting it. I have seen portraits which have more. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die. – Thomas Carlyle, Latter Day Pamphlets, no. 8
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. – George Bernard Shaw
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. – Michelangelo
They tell you that the great painters mixed blood with their pigments. It is not true; the compound used was brains. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
Architecture begins where engineering ends. – Walter Gropius
Good architecture lets nature in. – Mario Pei (1901–1978)
Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in. – Leonard Baskin (1922–2000)
