art Quotes

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.

The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.