"In the work of Vermeer the subject of the picture becomes - for the first time in the history of art - the object that is contemplated." Andre Malraux, 1951.

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."

"There are three classes of people, those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

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"I have never seen an angel.  Show me an angel, and I'll paint one."

"Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power."."

"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing."

"In our life there is a single colour, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art.  It is the colour of love." 

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"What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things."

"No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty."

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