“The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.” FirstsDoeArtStrengthArt IsSupremeSubtleStrongest Author:Andre Gide
“The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.” FirstsArtRealityArt IsImpressionWorks Of ArtFirst ImpressionOtherness Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.” FirstsHas BeensArtLyingArt IsCrossesMalesWorks Of ArtStrokesEroticPenetrateOrnamentsVerticalHorizontalLying Down Author:Adolf Loos
“What adults call 'wrong' in Child Art is the most beautiful and most precious. I value highly those things done by small children. They are the first and purest source of artistic creation.” FirstsChildrenArtDoneBeautifulValuesCreationSourceArt IsAdultsArtisticThings DoneSmall ChildArtistic Creation Author:Franz Cizek
“The beautiful in nature is the unmarred result of God's first creative or forming will,and ..the beautiful in art is the result of an unmistaken working of man in accordance with the beautiful in nature.” MenFirstsArtBeautifulResultsCreativeArt Is Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems