Some Quotes...

"Beauty is the form that love gives to things."
~ Ernest Hello

"To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,
To raise the genius, and to mend the heart;
To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold,
Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold
--For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage."
~ Alexander Pope, Prologue to Addison's Cato

"Art is for civilizations."
~ Edward Knippers

"Form, color, harmony
Oasis or mirage
For the eyes, the heart, or the spirit

Toward the moving ocean of pictorial appeal
"Tomorrow will be beautiful," said the
shipwrecked man
Before disappearing beneath the sullen horizon

Peace seems scarcely to rule
Over the anguished world
Of shadows and appearances

Jesus on the cross will tell you better than I
Jeanne at her trial in her brief and sublime replies
As well as the obscure or consecrated
Saints and martyrs."
~ George Rouault, preface of Miserere series

"We inherit from the Greeks a peculiar arrogance about the
species of animal to which we happen to belong."

~ Chinese Art, book

"The skill to do more, with the will to refrain."

~ Mustard Seed Garden, p 46

"A good painter has two chief objects to paint, man and the
intention of his soul; the former is easy, the latter hard, because he has to
represent it by the attitudes and movements of the limbs."

~ Leonardo da Vinci's notebook

"Should not such things be called 'still death'?" - i.e. still life's of dead birds, fish on plates or cut flowers in vases

~ Chinese Art, book

"The different types of men included in a landscape must not
be too detailed, nor must they be too sketchy. They must be related to the
landscape; the man must appear to look at the mountain, the mountain appear to
be bending over to see the man. The spectator should feel regret that he
cannot enter into the picture to change places with the person there
depicted. Otherwise the mountain remains merely a mountain, and the man a
man."

~ Mustard Seed Garden, "Men and Things", p 50