Quote by Benjamin Blech Download Open image ““Very often, the title given to an artwork is the key to unlocking its hidden meanings. For”” — Benjamin Blech ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“For me, art is the desire to preserve the intangible feeling of such a moment, hidden in all the littlest details, and then to… — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
“it is widely believed that the purpose of art is to challenge, to question, to transgress, never to celebrate, to harmonise, to console, to… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“For art is about desire, is it not, and never its consummation?” — A. Manette Ansay Copy Share Image
“For me, meaning of design is to give soul to objects by Art. Art sometimes need to be in every part of daily life,… — Baris Gencel Copy Share Image
“Genuine art . . . does not have as its object a mere transitory game. Its serious purpose is not merely to translate the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“For art to truly affect us, it needs to be, in a sense, “given.” — Elizabeth Hyde Stevens Copy Share Image
“Art actually happens somewhere in the space between clarity and ambiguity, concept and intuition, thought and feeling.” — Bert Dodson Copy Share Image
“Art cannot save the world, but it does help you understand the world inside of you.” — Krist Pauwels Copy Share Image
“the first things to consider when viewing a painting are the title and subject matter.” — Kathryn Shay Copy Share Image
“Art is a spirit and soul thing. Anything else is mere desperation.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every meaning that… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“If an artist of the caliber of Leonardo or Michelangelo was paid a hefty commission for a new private piece of art, that artwork… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“The Florentine public didn’t care. When the full-sized preparatory cartoons were displayed, the entire city went into ecstasy over both works. This was the… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“The floor is a fifteenth-century revival of medieval Cosmatesque mosaic style. The Cosmati family developed their unmistakable technique in Rome in the twelfth and… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“Carafa, as Pope Paul IV, established the Index of Forbidden Books, banned all women from entering the Vatican, burnt volumes of Talmud and Kabbalah,… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“The Vatican preached that because the Jews had killed Jesus and rejected his teachings they were punished with the loss of their Holy Temple… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“The Jew cannot accept the New Testament since it is the words of one man intended to undo what the Creator had shared with… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“THE VATICAN The very name Vatican comes from a surprising source. It is neither Latin nor Greek, nor is it of biblical origin. In… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“Buonarroti was later given the job of designing the huge dome of the new Basilica of St. Peter. It is well known how much… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“How to maintain the proper mood and not bore the congregation to sleep? Art was the answer. But not just pretty pictures that required… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“Yet another strategy for encoding in Renaissance works involved environmental “special effects.” Messages were ingeniously inserted so that they could be viewed only when… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“But last and least known is its additional purpose as a Kabbalistic meditational device that thus, in one more way, links it to ancient… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“Thus, Michelangelo filled the chapel with hidden messages of his passionate loves and his righteous rages, along with mystic symbols of divine justice and… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image