Affection Quote by David Hume

The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.

— Heraclitus

The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant.

— Joseph Campbell

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.

— Piet Mondrian

Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the…

— Alfred Sisley

The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far distance, where…

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination

— John Berger

Shadow conceals—light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to…

— Josef von Sternberg

It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention…

— Michelangelo

Merely to see... is not enough. It is necessary to have a fresh, vivid, physical contact with the object you draw through as many…

— Kimon Nicolaides

He [the artist] ought to have 'these powerful organs of expression' - colour and chiaroscuro - entirely at his command, that he may use…

— John Constable

Art objects are inanimate sad bits of matter hanging in the dark when no one is looking. The artist only does half the work;…

— Vik Muniz

To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.

— Hans Hofmann