Quote by John Ruskin

“The form and color which guide men experienced in the study of the masters are not always recognized by laymen. Yet they can feel…

— Walter Pach

“It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head, an academy…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

In every Art it is good to have a master. [In every art it is good to have a master.]

— George Herbert

“You will not find a treatise that is too learned for me; without laying claim to any genuine learning, I yet accustomed myself from…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can…

— Oscar Wilde

The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic…

— Walter J. Phillips

“How is he made? Oftentimes bitter, sometimes sweet, seldom even wide-awake, architectural criticism of "the modern" wholly lacks inspiration or any qualification because it…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“The Master Thinker is an artist and is careful to paint only the divine designs upon the canvas of his mind; and he paints…

— Anonymous

“If the painter has clumsy hands, he will be apt to introduce them into his works, and so of any other part of his…

— Leonardo da Vinci

A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot,…

— Joshua Reynolds