Marcel Proust Quotes

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

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

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

When you use the language of 'fact checking' to talk about a film, I think you're sort of fundamentally misunderstanding how art works. You don't fact check Monet's 'Water Lilies.' That's not what water lilies look like; that's what the sensation of experiencing water lilies feel like. That's the goal of the piece.

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

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

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.

Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.

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

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

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

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

In addition to giving comfort and joy, art also has the miraculous ability to let us live in other men's skins, to test our perceptions and beliefs against theirs, and perhaps to be changed as a result. It does this by portraying the world creatively, heightening our perception and enriching our understanding of things as they are.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

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

Music, like film, is an incredible tool for creating empathy.

You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.

Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.

One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's most intimate thoughts and feelings, that it throw open the window of the soul.

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