Art Quotes . . . and a Painting

Uintah Lake
2010 • 20" x 30"
Oil on Linen

"All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own."

     -John Ruskin (1819-1900)


"I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it."
  
     -Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) in Exemplary Novels (1613)


"I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."

     -Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)