DELACROIX-1796-1863
"Perfection is not art. I have told myself a hundred times that painting was no more than the pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and that of the spectator. Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself. The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring."
DEGAS-1834-1917
"The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy. The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things."
KANDINSKY 1866-1944
"I see no essential difference between a line one calls "abstract" and a fish. But rather an essential likeness. This isolated line and this isolated fish alike are living beings. They are forces of expression and impression on human beings. It is the environment of the line and the fish that become dynamic. The environment is the composition. The fish can swim, eat and be eaten...capacities of which the line is deprived. These capacities are necessary extras for the fish itself and the kitchen, but not for painting. That is why I like the line better than the fish." |
