Beholder Quote by Georges Braque

The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake…

— Georges Braque

... yet there is a difference between scientific and artistic observation. The scientist observes to turn away and generalize; the artist observes to seize…

— Edmund Blair Bolles

Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also embodies that…

— Gerhard Richter

Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the…

— Gerhard Richter

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

— Paul Klee

It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory,…

— Paul Klee

If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly.

— Sean Lennon

“When we analyse the picture into a large number of particles of paint, we lose the aesthetic significance of the picture. The particles of…

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have…

— Edgar Allan Poe

To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes…

— Michael Snow

That's what painting does; it organizes vision in a certain way or suggests that certain things be paid attention to and certain other things…

— Jasper Johns