Artistss about Art

"I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it."

Paul Cézanne

"Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it."

Robert Motherwell

"I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me."

Henri Matisse

"When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit."
Constantin Brancusi