Analysis Quote by Howard Pyle

We cannot underestimate the power of the different art forms, and the correspondences between them, which are an unending source of inspiration and enrichment.

— Helene Grimaud

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

— Charles Rosin

I really like the idea of banality and repetition being used to generate the image, which are simple and unobstructed and not captivated by…

— Doug Aitken

“An illustration is an enlargement, and interpretation of the text, so that the reader will comprehend the words better. As an artist, you are…

— Maurice Sendak

We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.

— Henry James

The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.

— Edouard Vuillard

Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.

— Meshell Ndegeocello

In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if…

— F. Sionil Jose

Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my…

— Kiki Smith

Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what exists; I…

— Gerhard Richter

Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.

— Harvey Dunn

Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense.

— Josiah Wedgwood