Sayings and Quotes, Quotes, Sayings

There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero.

Art helps nature, and experience art.
Author: Thomas Fuller.

There are certain figures in the arts who, although minor in accomplishment and equivocal in their aesthetic influence, are so completely representative of the spirit of their age that they come to occupy a historical position far greater than the in.
Author: Unknown.

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.
Author: John Ruskin.

Italy is certainly the native country of this art: and yet, I do not find the people in general either more musically inclined, or better provided with ears than their neighbors.
Author: Tobias G. Smollett.

The key in composing any painting is without thinking how long trends will last, or worrying what style art books would classify them under. Now if someone finds the composition to be postmodern or not that’s either their pleasure or their problem.
Author: Martin Dansky.

For those that see subject matter in paintings as static are not only missing the story behind the work, they are missing out on how form can be reinterpreted and how our use of composition and perspective has been altered as time goes on.
Author: Martin Dansky.

A painting is just as useless as a poem, but at least it has collector’s value as a possession and you can decorate your living room with it.
Author: Unknown.