Art(212)

"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."
Plutarch

"Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature."
Marcel Proust

"While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt."
Odilon Redon

"Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top."
Joan Rivers

"I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need."
Auguste Rodin

"Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight."
Auguste Rodin

"I invent nothing, I rediscover."
Auguste Rodin

"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it."
Carl Rogers

"I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good."
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous."
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe