“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.” – Jean Cocteau

“The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.” – Pierre Bonnard

“Art is the objectification of feeling.” – Herman Melville

“Painting is by nature a luminous language.” – Robert Delaunay

“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.” – Voltaire

“Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.” – Paul Klee

“Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.” – Charles Eames

“Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.” – Alfred de Vigny

“There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.” – Georges Braque

“I believe only in art and failure.” – Jane Rule