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Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which could otherwise have remained unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon.  Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists ... and many centuries after their core, whether we call it Rembrandt or Vermeer, is extinguished, they continue to send us their special rays.
                                                                                     Marcel Proust, 1871-1922

The imitator is a poor kind of creature.  If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the King of artists would be the photographer.  If is for the artist to do something beyond this; in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.
                                                                                   James Whistler, 1834-1903

Of all kinds of painting, figure painting is the most difficult; then comes landscape painting, and next dogs and horses.  High towers and pavilions are definite things; they are difficult to execute, but easy to handle since they do not demand insight.
                                                                                   Ku K'ai-Chih, A.D. 344-406

I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses ... and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
                                                                                  Oliver Cromwell, 1599-1658

One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier.
                                                                                Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880

In art economy is always beauty.
                                                                                       Henry James, 1843-1916

Painting is only a bridge linking the painter's mind with that of the viewer.

                                                                              Eugene Delacroix, 1799-1863

Art of any profundity can be appreciated only slowly, gradually, in leisurely contemplation.
                                                                      Daniel Gregory Mason, 1873-1953

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.
                                                                        Henry Louis Mencken, 1880-1956

Art!  Who comprehends her?  With whom can on consult concerning this great goddess?
                                                                     Ludwig Van Beethoven, 1770-1827

Now art should never try to be popular.  The public should try to make itself artistic.
                                                                                        Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
                                                                                          Paul Valery, 1871-1945

We need religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, art for art's sake.
                                                                                      Victor Cousin, 1792-1867

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