- It is well to remember that a picture - before being a battle horse, a nude woman, or some anecdote - is essentially a plain surface covered with colors in a certain order. (Maurice Denis)
- To go backward is to do nothing, to waste effort, to have neither understood nor profited from the lessons of the past. (Gustave Courbet)
- ...while photographs may not lie, liars may photograph. (Lewis Hine)
- A line is a dot that went for a walk. (Paul Klee)
- Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. (van Gogh)
- Clearly there isn't enough art in our schools when kids think Man Ray is a poisonous jellyfish. (Americans for the Arts advertisement)
- My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined. (Odilon Redon)
- Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his picture. (Henry Ward Beecher)
- An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. (Jean Cocteau)
- You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat. (Auguste Renoir)
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