Consciousness Quote by James David Lewis-Williams

All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

— Mike Svob

“As an artist, her imagination isn't fettered by the constraints of reality.”

— Sarah Cross

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

— Gustave Courbet

“Imagination was condemned to make something of things.”

— Glen Duncan

“The arts which need interpretation are the arts of time -- music and poetry -- and not the arts of space -- sculpture and…

— Salvador de Madariaga

“The most beautiful paintings in existence today are the ones which were not painted by anyone.”

— Karel Teige

“Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.”

— Paul Klee

“Art speaks to the soul, not the mind.”

— Aidan Crowe

“Sometimes I think I'm an artist. Once in a great while I even think I may be a visionary, but never a prophet, a…

— Henry Miller

“She drew the things that stuck to her mind, the things that caught her attention and, specially, the things she wasn't capable of understanding…

— Zøe Haslie

Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them.…

— Charles Demuth

“Like stories, art isn’t something that we see exactly as it is. Stories and art are mirrors, reflections of who we are and who…

— Christa Avampato