>>16027364>“To me, inspiration for my art is a combination of great artists of the past and the inner visions I see today. In my own way I explore realms of light and colour on my canvases. Each painting is sometimes like a soul-searching journey in itself. It is a great moment at those times when my art serves as an inspiration for viewers to find and release their own hopes and dreams.”— Benny H.V. Andersson
>You will never love Art well, till you love what she mirrors better.>All great art is the expression of man’s delight in God’s work, not his own.—John Ruskin
>The adoration of beauty leads the creature nearer to the Source of all he beholds. Then he will disregard life as it seems; for he will have merged in THAT from which all proceeds, and he will be ONE with the Essence of Divine Love—which is the highest God, and therefore IT is unknown.—Jean Michaud
>The goal of my art is to soothe and, hopefully, to elevate the viewer. I paint landscapes because unspoiled land is beautiful. Beauty is that which excites the soul.—Gage Taylor
>For his heart was in his work, and the heartGiveth grace unto every Art.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,The Building of the Ship
>A particular aspect of Nature is Beauty. We may say that Nature on the whole excites in us an aesthetic emotion which is part of the best of us. Here we get a glimpse of a harmony at the heart of things; and this harmony is a revelation to be enjoyed.—Sir Arthur J. Thomson,The Great Design: Introduction
