"Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it." - Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Amorous Peasants | Albrecht Dürer

Materials from Quilt, c. 1937 | Katherine Hastings

Samuel Wesley, 1820 | John Jackson

Mary Altarpiece, 1445 | Rogier van der Weyden

Portrait of a Man, c. 1497 | Andrea Solario

Exterior view, founded c. 1170 | German Architect

Drawer Pull, c. 1936 | Philip Johnson

Untitled [seated nude resting her head on her left hand], 1955-1967 | Richard Diebenkorn

Ship-Wreck, c. 1774 | Pierre-Jacques Volaire

Palo Alto Circle, 1943 | Richard Diebenkorn

White tulips | Charles Rennie Mackintosh

"Picasso is said to have once mused that it took him four years to learn to paint like Raphael but a lifetime to learn to paint like a child." - Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell

Embroidered Petticoat Border, c. 1936 | Lawrence Peterson

Curtain Tassel, 1938 | J. Howard Iams

Prophet, 1337-41 | Nino Pisano

My Egypt, 1927 | Charles Demuth

Cupid and Psyche, 1817 | Jacques-Louis David

Loggia from Laurelton Hall, Oyster Bay, New York, 1905 | Louis Comfort Tiffany

'In the Reeds'. Photographed by Constant Puyo, 1903.