REF AND NOTES

“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”

Francis Bacon

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

Edgar Degas

“Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks.”

René Daumal

“This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.”

Mark Rothko

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”

Anne Sexton

“The better voice doesn’t mean being a better singer.”

Luciano Pavarotti

“Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn’t have very strong personal resonance.”

Francis Ford Coppola

“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.”

Marc Chagall

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”

Henri Matisse

“Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.”

Pierre Bonnard

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

Michelangelo

“I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things”

Henri Matisse

“If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.”

Arnold Schoenberg

“Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two!”

Franz Marc

“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.”

Plutarch

“I dream of painting and then I paintmy dream.”

Vincent Van Gogh

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

Oscar Wild

“Art does not reproduce the visible rather it makes visible.”

Paul Klee

“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”

Paul Cezanne

“Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.”