Frost Quote by Jamie Wyeth

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that…

— William H. Hunt

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must have radiance;…

— Joan Miro

“Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused”

— Baruch Spinoza

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

I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of…

— Sidney Lanier

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and…

— John Constable

“The “Metaphor is one of thoughts most essential tools. It illuminates what would otherwise be totally obscure. But the illumination is sometimes so bright…

— Alistair Gray

There is a beauty of seeing a picture and making out what the story behind it might be.

— Gautam Rode

There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint…

— Charlotte Bronte

“This usually occurs at the moment when my head hits the pillow at night; my eyes close and … I see imagery. I do not mean…

— Oliver Sacks

The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

— Gaston Bachelard