Beauty and Folly are old companions.

Familiar and strange.

Gustav Klimt

Art is indeed subjective, but for this very reason it is not arbitrary.

To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

No definition of art is possible anymore.

Art aims at a deceitful illusion.

David Bomberg

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Egon Schiele

The image is always more sacred than what it represent

Nothing can replace the loss of female charm, not even noble decency.

Clyffort Still, Remarks on the observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime.

Vision is not a mechanical recording of elements but rather the apprehension of significant structural patterns,

Christopher Wool

Willem de Kooning