10/8/15

Quotes about the significance of Art


"I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it."

Paul Cézanne


"Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it."

Robert Motherwell


"I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me."

Henri Matisse


"When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit."

Constantin Brancusi



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