More than the painter is required for the creation of great painting, and more than the poet for the exhibition of immortal verse. Painters are but the hands, and poets but the voices, whereby peoples express their accumulated thoughts and permanent emotions. Behind them crowd the generations of the myth-makers; and around them floats the […]
Art Quotes
All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work, and in its reception by the public.
The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.
It has become obvious that art itself in America is without what might be called a natural environment. Art and artists often exist in a public climate that is either indifferent or hostile to their profession.
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
More matter with less art. (Hamlet)
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
The highest condition of art is artlessness.
Art cannot be modern, art is timeless.
