Art Quote by Colin Blakemore

By means of the iconic, artists express their view of reality and show their understanding of the structure of reality. They see what they…

— Hans Rookmaaker

Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision of reality,…

— John F. Kennedy

The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

— George Henry Lewes

When the Artist rises high enough to achieve the Beautiful, the symbol by which he makes it perceptible to mortal senses becomes of little…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

An artist paints his own reality.

— Ernie Barnes

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by…

— Leonardo da Vinci

In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never…

— John Edgar Park

“The painter is not simply someone who looks and who sees. Above all, the artist is someone who exposes a personal vision by rendering…

— Marcel Paquet

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul, so that it can weigh colours in its own scale and thus…

— Wassily Kandinsky

A real artist is the one who has learned to recognize and to render... the 'radiance' of all things as an epiphany or showing…

— Joseph Campbell