Auguste Rodin Quotes

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

What is art but a way of seeing?

I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

Artists have historically understood images better than anyone else. This is what we do.

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which otherwise would remain unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists.

In Utero is a testament to the artistic vision of Kurt Cobain. It's kind of a weird record, and it's strangely beautiful at the same time. And if you look at Kurt's paintings and his drawings - he even did a sculpture for me - it's a rising, tortured-spirit person. It's kind of weird. It's done well, but it's like what Dave was saying about having your own sound. Kurt was a great songwriter. He knew he had a good ear for a hook [and was] a great singer, great guitar player, and In Utero is a good representation of what he liked in art and how he expressed himself.

Good art means the ability of any one man to pin down in some permanent and intelligible medium a sort of idea of what he sees in Nature that nobody else sees. In other words, to make the other fellow grasp, through skilled selective care in interpretative reproduction or symbolism, some inkling of what only the artist himself could possibly see in the actual objective scene itself.

Art, to me is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. The word 'Impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted. [...] The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe. They take the ready-made axioms laid down by others, and walk blindly in a rut without trying to see for themselves.

for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.