Animal Quote by Dumitru Tepeneag

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

— Odilon Redon

“For indeed when painters themselves wish to represent sirens and satyrs [20] by means of especially bizarre forms, they surely cannot assign to them…

— René Descartes

The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and technical means…

— Hans Hofmann

When I'm working on new ideas, musically much of what's played is guided by a visual appearance or shape.

— Bill Ward

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

— Yann Martel

We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.

— Twyla Tharp

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our…

— Edward Albee

The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that in spite…

— Gyorgy Kepes

Music has always been a visual thing to me, so writing and drawing the 'Skin&Earth' comics, which tie cohesively with the music, was an…

— Lights

“With the manipulation of abstract symbols, an artist can send you information without sound, change your feelings and, sometimes, even beliefs. Artists convey the…

— Jonathan Culver

Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically…

— Iain McGilchrist

Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.

— Harvey Dunn