The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Aristotle

 The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature. But I am also a sculptor of the West. I place my mark and do not hide. Isamu Noguchi

When the soul wants to have an experience of something, she throws an image of the thing ahead of her and then enters into it. Meister Johann Eckhart

You have to master your tools. The amateur often stays fascinated with them. The challenge is to move beyond it. Wayne Cosshall

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture. Paul Cezanne

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?  Ludwig  van  Beethoven

I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something. Vincent Van Gogh

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies. Pablo Picasso

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.  Constantin Brancusi

A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades.  Pablo Picasso

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.   Henry David Thoreau