Art Quote by Theo van Doesburg

The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create…

— Colin Blakemore

Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind

— Gautama Buddha

The artist's mission is to make the soul perceptible. Our scientific, materialist culture trains us to develop the eyes of outer perception. Visionary art…

— Alex Grey

My art has always been in response to visions. Rather than confine my subject to representations of the outer worlds, I include portrayals of…

— Alex Grey

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.

— Robert Breault

Actually in the moment in which the idea has life, when it's listened to read, engaged with, acted on stage, it gains another dimension,…

— Kate Tempest

A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.

— Hans Hofmann

An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

— Ayn Rand

I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a…

— Marc Chagall

A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is happening in…

— Jean Dubuffet

In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the heavenly. There, free of…

— Pavel Florensky

In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in…

— Leonardo da Vinci