People forget to look at the major design elements: color, line, shape, texture, and repetition. Our senses sometimes get dulled by modern living, and we lose our capacity to look at and understand art.




"... I am getting well acquainted with nature. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in a motif; but for all that, I do not invent the whole picture; on the contrary, I find it all ready in nature, only it must be disentangled." (220)
Van Gogh

"An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own
language." (221)
Henri Matisse



"Is there a more mysterious idea for an artist than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of an animal?" (222) Franz Marc



"If you wish to get hold of the invisible you must penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible." (223)
Max Beckmann



220. Herschel B. Chipp, Theories of Modern Art, (Berkeley and L.A., Cal., University of California Press, 1968), p. 40
221. ibid., p. 140
222. ibid., p. 178
223. ibid., p. 187