Artist Quote by Victor Hugo

“And, as in the case of sensible images, if the artist look without distraction upon the archetypal form, not distracted by sight of anything…

— Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command,…

— Othniel Charles Marsh

“Merely corroborative detail intended to give artistic verisimilitude to a bald and——”

— W.S. Gilbert

“the figures are shadow-swept, various, self-involved, and as turbulent as waves, as standing waves ...; and as I look at them, as I curl…

— Evan Dara

The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary…

— E. J. Hughes

“First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and humor. Then more details are required…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Myths and legends, either about divinities or the formation and history of peoples and races, began to look like pictures on a jigsaw puzzle,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Sketches are social things. They are lonely outside the company of other sketches and related reference material. They are lonely if they are discarded…

— Bill Buxton

The Cubists used the figure, but they broke it up.

— Mark Tobey

“figures. PJ was in the middle, Trish and Harrison were to PJ’s right, and Potter and Ava were to PJ’s left. All of the…

— Elin Hilderbrand

“The book was rife with abstract diagrams that blurred the boundaries between art, mathematics, and pornography. Triangles of stacked numbers, columns of those thorny…

— Douglas Wynne

The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we…

— Auguste Rodin