Odalisque

Images are not just passive entities that coexist with their human hosts, any more than the microorganisms that dwell in our intestines. They change the way we think and dream. They refunction our memories and imaginations, bringing new criteria and new desires into the world.

Robert Rauschenberg

In visual perception, a color is never seen as it really is, as it physically is.

Josef Albers, Interaction of colors

Good art theory must smell the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

Rudolf Arnheim, Art and Visual perception,