Rembrandt and Vermeer invented light; Monet and Seurat reinvented it.
Chagall painted magic animals; then he taught love how to levitate.
Artemisia Gentileschi gave women back their bodies.
Michelangelo turned a ceiling into the Bible.
We love Frida Kahlo; she painted our pain.
Renoir made paint party.
Charles Burchfield painted a cathedral using a forest.
Rembrandt van Rijn out-detailed reality.
Emily Carr turned trees into saints.
Matisse, Picasso, Duchamp, Kandinsky, Warhol and Pollock threw a geometricized, essentialized and energized reality in our faces; that somewhat frightened us.
Mary Cassatt sat down in a crowd of men and turned mothers and children into paint.
Kandinsky played the piano with paint.
Monet gave the haystacks dignity.
Giotto brought the icons to tears.
Van Gogh — if only he could have known how much we would love him.
Jacob Lawrence painted a migration so he could teach us to see a people.
Modern art is life — with the arms knocked off.
Modern Thought Proverbs, Aphorisms and Epigrams 