"The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing." — Pierre Bonnard #Arts #QOTD

"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious." — Jean Cocteau #Arts #QOTD

"Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down." — Malcolm de Chazal #Arts #QOTD

"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse." — Winston Churchill #Arts #QOTD

"Imagination is the eye of the soul." — Joseph Joubert #Arts #QOTD

"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye." — Honore de Balzac #Arts #QOTD

"Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art." — Harry S Truman #Arts #QOTD

"Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort." — Robert Quillen #Arts #QOTD

"To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage." — Georgia O'Keeffe #Arts #QOTD

"I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me." — Roy Lichtenstein #Arts #QOTD

"The temple of art is built in words." — Josiah Gilbert Holland #Arts #QOTD

"I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally." — David Rockefeller #Arts #QOTD

"Architecture is the art of how to waste space." — Philip Johnson #Arts #QOTD

"Anything simple always interests me." — David Hockney #Arts #QOTD

"Painting and writing are solitary arts." — Conrad Hall #Arts #QOTD

"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth." — John Ruskin #Arts #QOTD

"What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house." — Edward Hopper #Arts #QOTD

"Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization." — Lincoln Steffens #Arts #QOTD

"Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction." — Evelyn Waugh #Arts #QOTD

"The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #Arts #QOTD