All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.
Art Quotes
Artists themselves fill the top places, which is unusual. Monet leads, then Erich Fromm, Renoir, John Galsworthy and Berthe Morisot, so the page has a lot of painters talking about painting. For the theory side, Tolstoy’s What Is Art? (1897) calls art a human activity whose purpose is to transmit the highest and best feelings to others, and Camus, in The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), says that if the world were clear, art would not exist.
“I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream” is credited to Vincent van Gogh and flagged misattributed. The notes list early versions: a French form, “Je rêve mon tableau, et plus tard je peindrai mon rêve,” cited in a 1918 book, and English translations in the Musical Courier of 1908.
Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do.
What a pity we allowed ourselves to be called Impressionists.
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
The bond of sympathy, like the artist's eye for beauty, may stretch across many divisions.
Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life.
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
For what was art, she thought, but the heart and soul made visible.
You're not supposed to have equations in a public lecture, so think of this as a piece of art.
Technique without art is shallow and doomed. Art without technique is insulting.