“Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.” — Harry S Truman
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“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.” — Honore de Balzac | #Art
“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.” — Honore de Balzac
“Imagination is the eye of the soul.” — Joseph Joubert | #Art
“Imagination is the eye of the soul.” — Joseph Joubert
“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.” — Winston Churchill | #Art
“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.” — Winston Churchill
“Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.” — Malcolm de Chazal | #Art
“Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.” — Malcolm de Chazal
“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.” — Jean Cocteau | #Art
“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.” — Jean Cocteau
“The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.” — Pierre Bonnard | #Art
“The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.” — Pierre Bonnard
“Art is the objectification of feeling.” — Herman Melville | #Art
“Art is the objectification of feeling.” — Herman Melville
“Painting is by nature a luminous language.” — Robert Delaunay | #Art
“Painting is by nature a luminous language.” — Robert Delaunay
“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.” — Voltaire | #Art
“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.” — Voltaire
