“The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.” Ansel Adams
“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.” Georgia O’Keeffe
“I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.” Grandma Moses
“In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her.”
Paul Cezanne
“There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.” Paul Cezanne
“Art is a line around your thoughts.” Gustav Klimt
“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”Paul Cezanne
“A feeling for things in themselves is much more important than a sense of the pictorial.” Vincent Van Gogh
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” Edgar Degas
“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” Andre Gide
“When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God-made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.” Paul Cézanne
“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” James McNeill Whistler
“Since rejection at the Salon, and despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is, above all, very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.” Claude Monet
“The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.” Alberto Giacometti
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” Leonardo da Vinci
“If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”Vincent Van Gogh
“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” Edgar Degas
“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” Edward Hopper
“I would like to paint the way a bird sings.” Claude Monet
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