Myungja Anna Koh Gallery

 

 

 

      Persistence, Persistence, and Persistence ...     

 

 

 

 

 

  “Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.” ―  George Eliot,  The Mill on the Floss

  “In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.” ―  Tom Robbins

  “A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.” ―  Leonardo da Vinci

 

               “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”                 ―  Vincent Van Gogh

  “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” ―  Edgar Degas

  “...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?” ―  Vincent Willem van Gogh

  “A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.” ―  Robert Henri

  “If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.” ―  John F. Kennedy

  “Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.” ―  Julian Barnes,  The Noise of Time

    “Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.” ―  Flannery O'Connor,  Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“The Beautiful is always strange.” ―  Charles Baudelaire

          “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”           ―  Vincent Willem van Gogh

  “All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.” ―  Milford Zornes

    “Art is to console those who are broken by life.” ―  Vincent van Gogh

  “I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.” ―  Anais Nin

  “Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.” ―  Jean Cocteau

    “What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.” ―  Pablo Picasso

  “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” ―  Pablo Picasso

  “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” ―  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  “I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.” ―  Karl Lagerfeld

  “If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.” ―  Peter Shaffer