Beauty Quote by Karel Teige

“You put your soul into those paintings, and nothing in this world is more beautiful to me than that soul of yours.”

— R.K. Lilley

“Painting reflects. It kills you in a colourful shower of emptiness. Flatness. Randomness. And beauty. Yes, it is the most pure beauty I have…

— Nigel Tomm

“Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“You see one painting, I see another, the art book puts it at another remove still, the lady buying the greeting card at the…

— Donna Tartt

“She painted because she loved to paint. She never exhibited. She had no career, no ambitions for her work except that it be good,…

— Michael Ignatieff

“It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same…

— Luther E. Vann

“... and people who have kids, people with husbands and jobs and mortgages, don't much want to hear about other people's paintings.”

— Michele Young-Stone

“The most glorious works of art, the ones that bring the purest joy – perhaps they need not be touched or known, but seen…

— Michelle Cuevas

“..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse painter because…

— Plato

“People looking at art but missing the beauty in people.”

— Reuben Berger

“He said, I suppose there are people who are purely moved by great art. I never met a painter who was. I'm not. All…

— John Fowles