Arctic Quote by John Keegan

I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in…

— Rufus Wainwright

“Pre-Raphaelites they called themselves; not that they imitated the early Italian masters at all, but that in their work, as opposed to the facile…

— Oscar Wilde

That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure…

— Nan Goldin

I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and I construct…

— Paul Caponigro

Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.

— Jane Urquhart

All great art is a visual form of prayer.

— Wendy Beckett

The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history

— Christopher Wood

I'm a huge fan of Renaissance art. It's very direct. They're paintings that hit you in the face in the same immediate way that…

— Sigrid

I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather…

— Lucian Freud

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the…

— Edvard Munch

Raphael and Titian seem to have looked at Nature for different purposes; they both had the power of extending their view to the whole;…

— Joshua Reynolds

All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval magicians made…

— William Butler Yeats