Accumulation Quote by Ana Mendieta

It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural world, it's…

— Ansel Adams

My art has always been in response to visions. Rather than confine my subject to representations of the outer worlds, I include portrayals of…

— Alex Grey

“The endless procession of people and things that forms the world is for me an interminable gallery of pictures whose content bores me. It…

— Fernando Pessoa

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general.

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Works of Art are meant to connect the human heart to inspiration, for cosmic consciousness to grow in the Supreme Reality rooted in Life…

— Nelly Mazloum

“Sometimes to see your work’s rightful place you have to walk to the edge of the precipice and search the deep chasms. You have…

— David Bayles

“Art has been wrecked by a complete consciousness of the universe which shews that the world is to each man only a rubbish-heap limned…

— H.P. Lovecraft

The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future…

— Paul Cezanne

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

— Takeshi Kitano

“Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same…

— Marcel Proust

My art is the way I reestablish the bonds that tie me to the universe.

— Ana Mendieta