Appreciation Quote by Emile Gruppe

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention,

— Dorothea Lange

Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

— Langston Hughes

An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

— Gustave Courbet

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

— Lucian Freud

I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and whoever is…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and…

— Joseph Conrad

“If you love beauty, it’s because beauty lives within you. If you love art, it’s because you are creative. If it wakes up your…

— Cynthia Occelli

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable…

— Lucian Freud

It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.

— Lucian Freud

It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be capable of…

— Wassily Kandinsky