"ART IS THE ONLY SERIOUS THING IN THE WORLD.

AND THE ARTIST IS THE ONLY PERSON WHO IS NEVER SERIOUS." - OSCAR WILDE

"WELL, IN ANY ART THERE ARE A LOT OF TECHNICAL THINGS THAT YOU CAN GET TO LIKE." - DONALD JUDD (1928-1994) - WAS AN AMERICAN ARTIST ASSOCIATED WITH MINIMALISM -

"I WOULD RATHER BE THE FIRST PAINTER OF COMMON THINGS THAN SECOND IN HIGHER ART." - DIEGO VELAZQUEZ

"EVERYONE DISCUSSES MY ART AND PRETENDS TO UNDERSTAND, AS IF IT WERE NECESSARY TO UNDERSTAND, WHEN IT IS SIMPLY NECESSARY TO LOVE." - CLAUDE MONET - IMPRESSIONIST PAINTER -

"LANDSCAPE IS NOTHING BUT AN IMPRESSION, AND AN INSTANTANEOUS ONE, HENCE THIS LABEL THAT WAS GIVEN US, BY THE WAY BECAUSE OF ME." "I HAD SENT A THING DONE IN LE HAVRE, FROM MY WINDOW, SUN IN THE MIST AND A FEW MASTS OF BOATS STICKING UP IN THE FOREGROUND ..." "THEY ASKED ME FOR A TITLE FOR THE CATALOGUE, IT COULDN'T REALLY BE TAKEN FOR A VIEW OF LE HAVRE, AND I SAID: 'PUT IMPRESSION.'" - CLAUDE MONET - IMPRESSIONIST PAINTER -

"FINE AND DELICATE TASTE IS THE FRUIT OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE." - JEAN A. DOMINIQUE INGRES - NEOCLASSICAL PAINTER -

"AS LONG AS YOU DO NOT HOLD A BALANCE BETWEEN YOUR SEEING OF THINGS AND YOUR EXECUTION, YOU WILL DO NOTHING THAT IS REALLY GOOD."

- JEAN A. DOMINIQUE INGRES - NEOCLASSICAL PAINTER -

"DRAWING IS THE PROBITY OF ART. TO DRAW DOES NOT MEAN SIMPLY TO REPRODUCE CONTOURS:" "DRAWING DOES NOT CONSIST MERELY OF LINE. DRAWING IS ALSO EXPRESSION, THE INNER FORM, THE PLANE AND MODELING. SEE WHAT REMAINS AFTER THAT. DRAWING INCLUDES THREE AND A HALF QUARTERS OF THE CONTENT OF PAINTING." - JEAN A. DOMINIQUE INGRES - NEOCLASSICAL PAINTER -

"ONE MUST KEEP RIGHT ON DRAWING; DRAW WITH YOUR EYES WHEN YOU CANNOT DRAW WITH A PENCIL." - JEAN A. DOMINIQUE INGRES - NEOCLASSICAL PAINTER -

"A PAINTINGS IS NOT COMPLETELY FINISHED UNTIL THE ARTIST HAS SEPARATED THE SPIRIT FROM BODY ." - JEAN A. DOMINIQUE INGRES - NEOCLASSICAL PAINTER -

"IF YOU WANT TO KNOW ALL ABOUT ANDY WARHOL, JUST LOOK AT THE SURFACE OF MY PAINTINGS AND FILMS AND ME, AND THERE I AM. THERE'S NOTHING BEHIND IT." -ANDY WARHOL - AMERICAN POP ARTIST

"AN ARTIST IS SOMEBODY WHO PRODUCES THINGS THAT PEOPLE DON'T NEED TO HAVE BUT THAT HE, FOR SOME REASON, THINKS IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO GIVE THEM." -ANDY WARHOL - AMERICAN POP ARTIST

"THE ATTACKS OF WHICH I HAVE BEEN THE OBJECT HAVE BROKEN THE SPRING OF LIFE IN ME... PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE CONSTANTLY INSULTED."

EDOUARD MANET - IMPRESSIONIST PAINTER

"GEOMETRY HAS TWO GREAT TREASURES; ONE IS THE THEOREM OF PYTHAGORAS;" "THE OTHER, THE DIVISION OF A LINE INTO EXTREME AND MEAN RATIO. THE FIRST WE MAY COMPARE TO A MEASURE OF GOLD; THE SECOND WE MAY NAME A PRECIOUS JEWEL." - JOHANNES KEPLER - HE IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS EPONYMOUS LAWS OF PLANETARY MOTION -

- THE DIVINE PROPORTION - THE GOLDEN RATIO LUCA PACIOLI (1445-1514), GEOMETER AND FRIEND OF THE GREAT RENAISSANCE PAINTERS, REDISCOVERED THE "GOLDEN SECRET". LUCA PACIOLI, HOWEVER, WAS A GREAT ADMIRER OF THE GOLDEN SECTION, AS EVIDENCED BY THE NAME OF HIS TREATISE, DIVINA PROPORTIONE, WHICH ACTUALLY COMPRISES THREE INDEPENDENT WORKS. THE LEARNED FRANCISCAN PACIOLI FINDS FIVE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD IN THIS SPECIAL PROPORTION, THE FIRST FOUR OF WHICH ARE UNITY AND UNIQUENESS, THE IMMUTABILITY, TRINITY,THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF DEFINING IN TERMS OF HUMAN RATIO, AND THE IMMUTABILITY . IN THE FIFTH, FUNCTIONAL COMPARISON PACIOLI SETS THE "DIVINE PROPORTION" IN RELATION TO THE PLATONIC QUINTESSENCE: "AS GOD CONFERS BEING TO THE CELESTIAL VIRTUE, CALLED BY THE OTHER NAME 'FIFTH ESSENCE', AND THROUGH THAT ONE TO THE OTHER FOUR SIMPLE BODIES, THAT IS, TO THE FOUR EARTHLY ELEMENTS... AND SO THROUGH THESE TO EVERY OTHER THING IN NATURE. THUS THIS OUR PROPORTION IS THE FORMAL BEING OF (ACCORDING TO TIMAEUS) HEAVEN, ATTRIBUTING TO IT THE FIGURE OF THE SOLID CALLED DUODECAHEDRON, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE SOLID OF TWELVE PENTAGONS."

"THE FIRST CARE OF A BEGINNER OUGHT TO BE TO ACCUSTOM THE EYE TO EXACTNESS AND PRECISION, SO AS BY THAT TO BECOME CAPABLE OF IMITATING ANY THING." ANTON RAPHAEL MENGS - NEOCLASSICAL PAINTER "THIS BEAUTY IS FOUND IN ALL THINGS, WHENEVER OUR IDEAS AND INTELLECTUAL SENSES CANNOT CARRY THE IMAGINATION BEYOND THE PERFECTION WHICH WE BEHOLD IN THE THING CREATED." "THIS, THEREFORE, RESEMBLES THE NATURE OF A POINT. A POINT OUGHT TO BE INDIVISIBLE, FROM WHENCE IT IS ALWAYS; BUT SINCE IT IS OF ADVANTEGE TO FORM A VISIBLE IDEA, THAT MARK WHICH IS CONSIDERED MATHEMATICALLY INDIVISIBLE, IS CALLED A VISIBLE POINT." - ANTON RAPHAEL MENGS - NEOCLASSICAL PAINTER -

"SINCE PERFECTION IS NOT ALLOTTED TO MANKIND, AND IS ONLY TO BE FOUND IN GOD, AND AS NOTHING IS COMPREHENSIBLE TO OUR NATURE EXCEPT THAT WHICH FALLS UNDER THE CONVICTION OF THE SENSES;" "THUS THE OMNIPOTENT HAS THOUGHT FIT TO IMPRINT A VISIBLE IDEA OF THAT PERFECTION, WHICH IS WHAT WE CALL BEAUTY ." ANTON RAPHAEL MENGS (1728-1779) - NEOCLASSICAL PAINTER -

"WHEN ONE IS PAINTING, ONE DOES NOT THINK" - RAFFAELLO SANZIO - ITALIAN RENASCENTIST PAINTER -

"AS I GREW OLDER, I REALIZED THAT IT WAS MUCH BETTER TO INSIST ON THE GENUINE FORMS OF NATURE, FOR SIMPLICITY IS THE GREATEST ADORNMENT OF ART." ALBRECHT DURER (1471-1528) - GERMAN RENASCENTIST PAINTER

"WHY HAS GOD GIVEN ME SUCH MAGNIFICENT TALENT? IT IS A CURSE AS WELL AS A GREAT BLESSING."

ALBRECHT DURER (1471-1528) - GERMAN RENASCENTIST PAINTER

"DRAWING INCLUDES THREE AND A HALF QUARTERS OF THE CONTENT OF PAINTING... DRAWING CONTAINS EVERYTHING, EXCEPT THE HUE." JEAN-AUGUSTE-DOMINIQUE INGRES - NEOCLASSICAL PAINTER

"A MAN PAINTS WITH HIS BRAINS AND NOT WITH HIS HANDS" MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI (1475 - 1564)

"IN THE ARTS THE WAY IN WHICH AN IDEA IS RENDERED, AND THE MANNER IN WHICH IT IS EXPRESSED, IS MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE IDEA ITSELF." "TO GIVE A BODY AND A PERFECT FORM TO ONE'S THOUGHT, THIS - AND ONLY THIS - IS TO BE AN ARTIST." - JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID - NEOCLASSICAL PAINTER -

"THE CHIEF CONSIDERATION FOR A GOOD PAINTER IS TO THINK OUT THE WHOLE OF HIS PICTURE, TO HAVE IT IN HIS HEAD AS A WHOLE, SO THAT HE MAY THEN EXECUTE IT WITH WARMTH AND AS IF THE ENTIRE THING WERE DONE AT THE SAME TIME." - JEAN-AUGUSTE-DOMINIQUE INGRES (1780 - 1867) - NEOCLASSICAL PAINTER

"THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE IMMORTAL GREECE AND CONTEMPORARY TIMES IS SIGMUND FREUD, WHO DISCOVERED THAT THE HUMAN BODY, PURELY PLATONIC AT THE GREECE EPOCH, NOWADAYS IS FULL OF SECRET DRAWERS THAT ONLY THE PSYCHOANALYSIS IS CAPABLE TO OPEN". - SALVADOR DALI (1904-1989) WAS A PROMINENT SPANISH SURREALIST PAINTER BORN IN FIGUERES, SPAIN -

"THE REAL PAINTER IS HE WHOS ABLE TO PATIENTLY PAINT A PEAR SURROUNDED BY THE TUMULT OF HISTORY ." - SALVADOR DALI - SURREALIST PAINTER -