Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
Art Quotes
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life.
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
Works of art can wait: indeed they do nothing but that and do it passionately.
An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keep out of it.
Art takes whatever – and as long as – it takes.
