Brilliant Quote by Wendy Beckett

“Salvador Dalí’s aberrations are partly explicable. Perhaps they are a way of assuring himself that he is not commonplace. The two qualities that Dali…

— George Orwell

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

— Vincente Minnelli

“Dalí said, “Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”

— Austin Kleon

Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

— Francis Bacon

Whatever happens, my audience mustn't know whether I am spoofing or being serious; and likewise I mustn't know either. I am in a constant…

— Salvador Dali

“My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her... I could not resign myself…

— Salvador Dali

“The poem or the discovery exists in two moments of vision: the moment of appreciation as much as that of creation; for the appreciator…

— Jacob Bronowski

“Duchamp had taken art to its logical conclusion. Every act of perception is art. So everything that perceives is an artist.”

— Chris F. Westbury

Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“And while he compared all these things which he was seeing with his eyes to the mental pictures he had painted of them in…

— Hermann Hesse

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

— Lucian Freud

The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which…

— Paul Cezanne