"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 - 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 - GERMAN RENASCENTIST PAINTER -

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

- ALBRECHT DURER - 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 WHO’S ABLE TO PATIENTLY

PAINT A PEAR SURROUNDED BY THE TUMULT OF HISTORY."

- SALVADOR DALI - SURREALIST PAINTER -