“Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one consciously, by means of certain external symbols, conveys to others the feelings one has experienced, whereby people so infected by these feelings, also experience them.”

“Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.”

“Painting is that pleasant amusement being one of the means whereby we convey ideas to each other.”

“Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.”

“Art consists in making others feel what we feel.”

“Art is not a handicraft; it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”

“Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.”

“Art, rightly applied, provided humanity with the symbols, insight, and vicarious experience necessary to help one person place him- or herself in the shoes of another, and by so doing come to appreciate the commonality of human experience.”

“One of the major activities of art consists in sharpening the edge of platitudes to make them enter the soul as realities.”

“Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.”