The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature.

- George Inness

You must suggest to me reality---you can never show me reality.

- George Inness

The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A work of art does not appeal to the…

- George Inness

The greatness of art is not in the display of knowledge, or in material accuracy, but in the distinctness with which it conveys the impressions of a …

- George Inness

The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion.

- George Inness

The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of communicati…

- George Inness