Book Quote by Henri Matisse

“Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. I try to act in that gap between the two. - 1959, from…

— Robert Rauschenberg

“A book is a work of art. (Again,”

— Mortimer J. Adler

“I wrote one line about every painting I saw and then did the same in the street: what sight isn't a painting.”

— Zach Savich

“No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in…

— Susan Vreeland

“To create works of art meant no less to him than to paint life, not mere reality, but the principle of life.”

— Ingo Walther

“There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.”

— Pat Conroy

“Art in painting should consist only of the representation of things that are visible and tangible.”

— Gustave Courbet

“The sense of modernism is often seen in the determination of each of the arts to come as close as possible to its own…

— Milan Kundera

“the indifference of the natural world to the constructions of art”

— Lawrence Durrell

“In art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“If I had to choose between a wall of paintings and a wall of books, I would certainly choose books. When you walk into…

— Timothy Mauson

“At the point in his lecture where he was saying that the representative element in a work of art is always irrelevant, that for…

— Joy Williams