May 2022 – Art Wiz Codex

“The perfection of art is to conceal art.” — Quintilian | #Art

“The perfection of art is to conceal art.” — Quintilian

“Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.” — Ansel Adams

“Art is anything you can get away with.” — Marshall McLuhan

“Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart’s desire.” — John Dewey

“Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.” — Ambrose Bierce

“The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.” — Max Eastman

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” — Henry Ward Beecher

“The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.” — Evelyn Waugh

“Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.” — Lincoln Steffens