|
Paul
Gauguin |
Art
is an abstraction as you dream amid nature. |
|
Paul
Gauguin |
I
have tried to establish the right to dare everything. |
|
Paul
Gauguin |
Don't
sweat over a painting, a great sensation can be rendered
immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in
which you can express it. |
|
Gauss |
Nothing is ever required or sufficient. |
|
Jean-Léon
Gérôme |
How
can the government dare welcome such a collection of inanities
into a museum?
Why, have you seen the collection?
The state the ward of such junk!
The Luxembourg Museum is a school. What lessons are
our young artists going to receive there from now on?
They'll all start to do Impressionism! (Writing in L'Eclair
about Caillebotte's bequest to the French nation, 1894) |
|
Charles
Gleyre |
Nature
is fun to study, but style is everything. |
|
Goethe |
The
best way to understand a painting is by drawing it. |
|
Goethe |
Everyone
hears only what he understands |
|
Vincent van Gogh |
Try
to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for
that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more.
Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to
see her.
If one really loves nature, one can find beauty
everywhere. (Letter to Theo 1873) |
|
Vincent van Gogh |
I often think the night is more alive and more richly colored than the
day.
(Letter to his brother Theo, Letter 533, Arles, 8 September 1888) |
|
Vincent van Gogh |
To
paint nature you must be in it a long time. (Letter June
25, 1889) |
|
Vincent van Gogh |
I'd
rather die of passion than boredom. |
|
E.
H. Gombrich |
Art
does not copy nature – it suggests
it. |
|
Antony
Gormley |
It
is as much the conversations between objects as between us and
objects that make museums so valuable. (The Guardian,
June 23, 2007) |
|
Clement
Greenberg |
The
reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in
reflection upon experience. |
|
Pope
Gregory I |
To
adore images is one thing; to teach with their help what should
be adored is another . . . what scripture is to the educated,
images are to the ignorant. |
