Hokusai
"Oh, freedom, beautiful freedom, when will I walk in the summer fields, as a single soul, away from the body." — A verse composed by Hokusai a little before his death on the 10th of May 1849.
Leonardo da Vinci
"The glory of the artist is create beings, that arouse love."
Michelangelo
Albrecht Dürer
Rembrandt
Johannes Vermeer
Francisco Goya
"They put lines all around and no bodies at all. But where can they see lines in nature? In nature I see only bodies, lit and unlit, shifting backgrounds and foregrounds... My eye sees neither contour, nor detail. So my brush shouldn't see better than me! There are only sunshine and shadows."
Caspar David Friedrich
"Art is a mediator between man and nature, in which mediation the man is a tiny 'background figure.'"
Vincent van Gogh
"I prefer to draw people's eyes instead of cathedrals, for there is something in the eyes, which is lacking in a cathedral even if it's impressive and imposing; a soul of a man, even one of a beggar or a streetwalker is more interesting for my eyes."
Edgar Degas
"In vein I repeat to myself every morning to start painting from the feet and that it is better to start climbing up by the form than climb down. In spite all that I start, alas, from the head again."
Auguste Rodin
"The mind paints while the heart is modeling."
Pablo Picasso
"You must paint only the things that you love."
