“To give a body and a perfect form to one’s thought. This is to be an artist.” – – Jacques-Louis David [1748 –1825] French painter in the Neoclassical style
“To give a body and a perfect form to one’s thought. This is to be an artist.” – – Jacques-Louis David [1748 –1825] French painter in the Neoclassical style
“Every artist was first an amateur.” – – Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-1882] American essayist, lecturer, and poet
“The first job of the man who has a problem must be to become better acquainted with it. The way to do this is by producing an inadequate solution to the problem – a speculation – and by criticizing this. To understand a problem means, in effect, to understand its difficulties; and this cannot be done until we see why the more obvious solutions do not work Even in those cases where no satisfactory answer turns up we may learn something from this procedure.” – – William Bartley [1934-1990] American philosopher and author
“If you could say it in words, there’d be no reason to paint.” – – Edward Hopper [1882-1967] American realist painter and printmaker
“Architecture is not art; it is public. Art is the private affair of the artist.” – – Adolf Loos [1870-1933] Austrian and Czechoslovak architect
“There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfection of the mere stylist.” – – Charles Renee Mackintosh [1868-1928] Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist
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