If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times.
Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception. - Raphael Soyer
Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.
- Raphael Soyer
If I don't paint for one day, I don't feel well physically or mentally. - Raphael Soyer
If I don't paint for one day, I don't feel well physically or mentally.
From all that I have seen, I am more than ever convinced that art must communicate, and it must represent, describe and express people, their lives a… - Raphael Soyer
From all that I have seen, I am more than ever convinced that art must communicate, and it must represent, describe and express people, their lives a…
Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident. - Raphael Soyer
Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident.
If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times. - Raphael Soyer
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