There are two devices which can help the sculptor to judge his work: one is not to see it for a while – the other – whenever he has not the leisure for the former – is to look at his work through spectacles which will change its color and magnify or diminish it, so […]
Art Quotes
One may do whatever one likes in art: the only thing is to make sure that one does not like it.
If Michelangelo painted in Caesar’s Palace, would that make it any less art?
Any great work of art… revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world – the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
Art should extend beyond itself to become an act of ethical reform, influencing public opinion, public action, and public contribution.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he’s in business.
By the time the child can draw more than scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well formed body of conceptual knowledge formulated in language dominates his memory and controls his graphic work. Drawings are graphic accounts of essentially verbal processes. As an essentially verbal education gains control, the child abandons […]
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.
Art is choice.
