Doe Quote by Euan Uglow

I've never seen a surface that I think is more seductive in image making.

— John Sexton

“Long since, the standard way of understanding surface has been as an abstract and undifferentiated plane that functions above all to veil or delimit…

— Sylvia Lavin

Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

There is something hidden in each sensation.

— Gustavo Cerati

And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex, due to…

— Anonymous

We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

— Voltaire

The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.

— Thomas Merton

From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.

— Henri Matisse

Beauty reveals itself in the course of an experience with an object.

— Howard Gardner

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

I love the idea of engaging the object, whether it be architecture or a piece of good graphic design, or a good painting, or…

— Michael C. McMillen

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.

— Edward Hopper