Marcel Proust Quotes

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

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

Art points to things. It's a way of giving people not the standard way of looking at the world.

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.

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others 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.

Art is a form of consciousness.

(Art is) the residue of vision.

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.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

What is art but a way of seeing?

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

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

They're not poodles, they're art.

Style is objective, akin to art, so it varies.

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

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

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

What I love in art is that it takes known combinations and reorders them in a way that sheds light on something that they have never seen before or allows to consider the world in a slightly different way.

I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond