Quotes about Perception
Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
— Samuel Beckett
I don't say everything, but I paint everything.
— Pablo Picasso
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
— Pablo Picasso
Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
— Oscar Wilde
I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.
— Pablo Picasso
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
— Oscar Wilde
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
— Milan Kundera
I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.
— Walt Disney
Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.
— St. Augustine
A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.
— John Donne
All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.
— Madeleine L'Engle