Achievement Quote by Asher Brown Durand

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

— Quintilian

The best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge. The laboratory experiments that led to the…

— Nancy Hale

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

— Aristotle

Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.

— Kazimir Malevich

The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.

— Pablo Picasso

“Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and colour tell us of form and colour - that is all. It often seems…

— Oscar Wilde

The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what…

— Charles de Lint

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

— Francois Delsarte

Art is most effective when concealed.

— Ovid

It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their…

— John Frederick Boyes

It's very important that an artist's job is to be a great artist.

— Steve Stoute

Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.

— Charles Lenox Remond