Art is still the only place in the world where you can do exactly what you want if you pay the price, which is having no one else want it.
Art Quotes
It is the assumption of this book that a work of art is a gift, not a commodity. Or, to state the modern case with more precision, that works of art exist simultaneously in two “economies,” a market economy and a gift economy. Only one of these is essential, however: a work of art can […]
In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.
Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
Art is self-conscious, not spontaneous; it exists to shield us from sordid reality, not to reflect it; it is partisan rather than disinterested, and its meanings are quite independent of whatever the author intended.
Every artist was first an amateur.
In art, as in love, instinct is enough.
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
