Art Quote by Gilles Néret

“A sculpture of the magnificent shape of God. Oh, admittedly it was a shallow rendering of That Which Cannot Be Named; but art is…

— Laird Barron

“If nature has composed the human body so that in its proportions the seperate individual elements answer to the total form, then the Ancients…

— Vitruvius

“Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action…

— Paul Valéry

“All art begins with a groping after form, then attains form, and then emancipates itself from too great insistence upon rigidity of form without,…

— Gustav Kobbé

The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are studying the symbols by…

— Kenneth Clark

As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What appears in the former statue of Apollo, however, cannot simply be equated with the Olympian of the same name, who had to ensure…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“There were people who swore as an art form—performing a dazzling juncture of the inordinate and the unexpected.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Of old, God the incorporeal and formless was never depicted, but now that God has been seen in the flesh and has associated among…

— Daniel A. Siedell

The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we…

— Auguste Rodin

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

[The works of Archimedes] are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition; the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering of the…

— Thomas Little Heath