| Quote | Author |
| Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. | Andrew Wyeth |
| Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms, and the reordering of nature | Daniel Bell |
| What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. | Edward Hopper |
| Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas. | Georges Braque |
| A picture must possess a real power to generate light [and] for a long time now I | Henri Matisse |
| Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man | Henry David Thoreau (1817 |
| I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence. | Man Ray (1890 (Man Ray: Photographer, ed. Philippe Sers (1981)) |
| Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me | Michel de Montaigne (1533 |
| Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. ATTRIBUTION: Pablo Picasso (1881 | Pablo Picasso (1881 (Quoted by Renato Guttuso) |
| Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live; science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life. Born of the sensibility, it sows and creates it in its turn. It is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life. | R |
| Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness, to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten; so painting teaches me the splendor of color and the expression of form, and as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art, I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 |
| Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. | Salvador Dali |
| The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of space, but it is space itself as a perceived quantity that becomes the peculiar concern of the sculptor. We may say that for the painter space is a luxury; for the sculptor it is a necessity. | Sir Herbert Read (1893 |
| Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness. To define beauty not in the most abstract, but in the most concrete terms possible, not to find a universal formula for it, but the formula which expresses most adequately this or that special manifestation of it, is the aim of the true student of aesthetics. | Walter Pater (1839 |
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