Art imitates Nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.
Art Quotes
Where the world ceases to be the stage for personal hopes and desires, where we, as free beings, behold it in wonder, to question and to comtemplate, there we enter the realm of art and of science. If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; […]
It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament.
Art has no history – there is only a continuous present.
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
mr youse needn’t be so spry concernin questions arty each has his tastes but as for i i likes a certain party gimme the he-man’s solid bliss for youse ideas i’ll match youse a pretty girl who naked is is worth a million statues
There are, of course, real artists, doing real work, all over the Western world, struggling through all kinds of difficulties and obscurity to keep the magnificent tradition alive, and push it forward an inch or two. What a pity that the little attention they can get for their work in a frivolous, easily distracted age […]
When a work of art appears to be in advance of its period, it is really the period that has lagged behind the work of art.
Another viewer describes the unsettling physical dimension of the aesthetic flow experience, which resembles the shock a body feels when diving into a pool of cold water: When I see works that come close to my heart, that I think are really fine, I have the strangest reaction: which is not always exhilarating, it is […]
As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.
