Balance Quote by Francis Bacon

It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in…

— Pablo Picasso

If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at the Prado…

— Joaquin Sorolla

“To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to…

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion…

— John F. Carlson

“... I think I intuitively suspected that perspective would put me outside the painting. I didn't want that. I wanted to get close to…

— Natalie Goldberg

While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject…

— Walter J. Phillips

“We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it. The objects that provoke aesthetic emotion vary with…

— Clive Bell

The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call…

— Clive Bell

The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down…

— David Milne

Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him - may be…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

“He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and…

— Henry James