Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

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

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.

I look at everything in an artistic way.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips, teaches us to perceive reality differently.

It was awesome working with Miley. She's a visionary and she's a creator and has a lot of ideas.

A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees. They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has more chance of success.

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.

You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful for art.

Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him. ... The model will serve equally for a Rembrandt drawing or for anybody's magazine cover. A genius is one who can see. The others can often 'draw' remarkably well. ... Those who get their technique first, expecting sight to come to them later, get a technique of a very ready-made order.

A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may have noted each detail minutely, the result will be flat and without character... the artist on the contrary, sees; that is to say, his eye, grafted on his heart, reads deeply into the bosom of nature.

All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

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

To love something as an artist ... means to be shaken not by its ultimate value or lack of value, but by a side of it that suddenly opens up. Where art has value it shows things that few have seen. It's conquering, not pacifying.

My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent.

Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

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

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

I paint what I think, not what I see.

I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs. But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.