I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. Andy Warhol

          I agree with this quote, because when someone looks at something for too long, they beging to nit-pick, and they notice the smallest things that can change the whole way they look at it. If you just look at it, and admire it for what it is, I think you can get a better understanding of the meaning behind it.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. Jonathan  Swift


Everyone has their own view on different situations. Two people can be in the same situation and see different things and have different opinions about it. So by saying "Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others", means one person can pick out different things in a situation or place, that others may over-look.

We have art in order not to die from the truth. Friedrich Nietzsche

With art, you can make up things and design beautiful pieces of art to create you own reality in order to cover up what others may see as the 'ugly truth'. People, even artists, do what they can to look at the world through their own perspective and decide wether they want it to be bad, or good. Therefore, they have the power to put into their art, what they see through their own eyes, and think in their own minds.

The principle of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. Jerzy Kosinski

This is a very good quote, because saying and representing something is completely different than actually carrying out the action. If an artist says he is going to do something, that doesn't necessarily mean that he will follow through with what he was originally representing, or, thinking about doing. Ideas do not get rewarded, only actions do.

 "I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good." Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe


               I understand what he is trying to communicate with the public and other artists when I read this quote. No artist does his work just to impress people, they do it for their passion of art, and use it as a way to individualize themselves from others. Today, we see paintings that are very fun to look at, colorful, bright, the whole ten yards, but there is something missing. Yes, these paintings are pretty and exciting to look at, but not all artwork needs to be a 'sight for sore eyes.' There are painings and other types of artwork out there that are black and white, and some even have some historical meaning to them. These pieces are bland and sometimes dull in color, but not every piece of artwork needs to be bright and interesting to be a wonderful piece of work.

"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known." Oscar Wilde
                         


          I strongly agree with this statement. All artists put into their paintings and other works of art, things that they either relate to, or what individualizes them from others. Artists don't want to paint and construct things that they have no interest in, and/or no knowledge about. Everyone has their different personalities and things that interest them, so therefore, every artists pieces of work, reflects their personality, knowledge, beliefes, and creativity, which shows who that particular artist is as an individual.