A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower.
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.
Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can unite them if painted separately. Keep the impression of your subject as one thing!
Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.
What is art but a way of seeing?
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