artistrie: eva's garden

"The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. "

- Aristotle

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
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"I found I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."

-Georgia O'Keeffe

"This world is but a canvas to our imagination."

- Henry David Thoreau

"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."

-John Updike

"Panting is just another way of keeping a diary."

-Pablo Picasso

"We have art in order not to die of the truth."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

-Scott Adams

"The artist is nothing without the skill, but the skill is nothing without the work."

-Emile Zola

"I shut my eyes in order to see."

-Paul Gauguin ( French painter, printer and scuptor, 18-1903)

"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."

-Oscar Wilde

artistrie

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

eva's garden

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