Marcel Proust Quotes

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

Somebody was saying to Picasso that he ought to make pictures of things the way they are-objective pictures. He mumbled that he wasn't quite sure what that would be. The person who was bullying him produced a photograph of his wife from his wallet and said, "There, you see, that is a picture of how she really is." Picasso looked at it and said, "She is rather small, isn't she? And flat?"

Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon.

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse is true - to the degree that this dichotomy has any truth - the artist begins with art, and through it arrives at reality.

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

You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.

What is art but a way of seeing?

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

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

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

Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

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

If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.

What Degas called 'a way of seeing' must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and will.

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

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 look at everything in an artistic way.

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

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

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.