Art Quote by Robert Aris Willmott

“All these appeals to art to set herself more in harmony with modern progress and civilisation, and to make herself the mouthpiece for the…

— Oscar Wilde

“How may paintings have preserved the image of a divine beauty which in its natural manifestation has been rapidly overtaken by time or death.…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after…

— Winston Churchill

“So when the faithful pencil has design'd Some bright idea of the master's mind, Where a new world leaps out at his command, And…

— Alexander Pope

One has to seek Beauty and Truth, Sir! As I always say to my pupils, you have to work to the finish. There's only…

— William-Adolphe Bouguereau

“Yet again, the heroine of the novel is a lovely young woman thwarted in her creative capacities by marriage to an old man; yet…

— Olivia Shakespear

“Paint, for the Impressionists, became a medium whose material properties were being celebrated as opposed to being disguised behind the artifice of a pictorial…

— Will Gompertz

“Painters have often taught writers how to see.”

— James Baldwin

“He laughed. “What’s to say? Great paintings—people flock to see them, they draw crowds, they’re reproduced endlessly on coffee mugs and mouse pads and…

— Donna Tartt

“The great French diarist Jules Renard (1864-1910) had small interest in non-literary art forms. When Ravel approached him wanting to set five of his…

— Julian Barnes

“I've been strongly influenced, in technique as well as subject matter, by some of the early 20th-century book illustrators — Arthur Rackham and Edmund…

— Alan Lee

“You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrait - a portrait that, probably,…

— Hope Mirrlees