Human life is a sad show, undoubtedly: ugly, heavy and complex. Art has no other end, for people of feeling, than to conjure away the burden and bitterness.
Art Quotes
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
The artist must no more appear in his work than God in nature.
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.
