Alain de Botton Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.

  Alain de Botton

  Book, Giving, Feelings

• We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould, to a helpful vision of ourselves. We arrange around us material forms which communicate to us what we need — but are at constant risk of forgetting what we need — within. We turn to wallpaper, benches, paintings and streets to staunch the disappearance of our true selves.

  Alain de Botton

  Self, Ideas, Risk

  Alain de Botton (2007). “The Architecture of Happiness”, p.55, Penguin UK

• Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.

  Alain de Botton

  Reality, Choices, Painting

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