Elements Quotes

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I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous nature is played… — May Sarton
Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should… — Pablo Picasso
Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work. — Leonardo da Vinci
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. — Lucretius
All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in… — Henri Matisse
Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every… — Henri Matisse
A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or… — Walter Pater
In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so… — Charles Baudelaire
I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this Nature, powerful and… — Paul Gauguin
Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it… — Remy de Gourmont
Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... forever growing... can be one… — Leopold Stokowski
When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the… — Dogen
It has been well said that the food one consumes determines one's thoughts. By eating the flesh of various animals, the qualities of these animals… — Sathya Sai Baba
For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the wayside,… — Robert Motherwell
The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its… — Louis Aragon
Sensation is an element of what I do, and why not? It's not sensational for the sake of being sensational, but it's sensational art... It's… — Damien Hirst
The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without… — Alain de Botton
The most important element in a picture cannot be defined. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain. — Vittorio Alfieri
If there is anything the artist or a true work of art teaches us, it is that variety and complexity really increase the unity, and… — David Steindl-Rast

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