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As Piero once put it: "I think of art as affecting the eye, the heart, and the mind. First visually, as one senses the touch of the brush, the subtlety of shapes and colors, and the ability of the artist to translate his ideas into physical form."Here we discover the personality of the painter, his artistic sensibilities, and his mastery of technique.
Then, the heart: how the work moves us - sometimes in sympathy, sometimes not - awakening emotions outside of our immediate experience. Finally, there is the challenge to the mind. This is what makes us return to study, to contemplate, and to understand the purpose and meaning of the painting.
Physically, emotionally, intellectually - and it is often hard to separate the three - we respond to pictures in personal ways as varied as we are all different, but guided by the artist's creativity and his ability to communicate with us.This is the beauty of art, that we can look at pictures painted hundreds of years ago, enter into their world, and emerge with a deeper understanding of our times and ourselves (Piero Corsini, "Introduction" Important Old Master Paintings. Discoveries... In una nuova luce, exh. cat. ed. by R. B. Simon, Piero Corsini Inc., New York 1988, p. 5).