"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward
significance."
Aristotle
"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing."
Marc Chagall, (1887-1985), artist
"Art
neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings
us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to
us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion,
of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to
reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite."
Victor Cousin
"Art
is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can
conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start
measuring her limbs."
Pablo Picasso,
(1881-1973)
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Pablo Picasso
