Art Quote by Aberjhani

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.

— Paul Cezanne

Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly…

— Joshua L. Goldberg

In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly…

— Carolyn Kizer

The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.

— Asher Brown Durand

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into…

— Robert Henri

Visual storytelling utilizes both language and art to pass on the essence of who we are.

— Debbie Millman

The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.

— Robert Genn

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.

— Roy H. Williams

As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.

— John Langdon

Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

— Edgar Degas

I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up…

— Siri Hustvedt

The narrative image has more dimensions than the painted image - literature is more complex than painting. Initially, this complexity represents a disadvantage, because…

— Dumitru Tepeneag