Artlessness, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.
Art Quotes
Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.
The essence of all art is having pleasure giving pleasure.
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form – or else it is not art.
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
An artist has every right – one may even say a duty – to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.
The great artist is the simplifier.
Buy old masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.
Americans as a whole do not really care for poems or novels or plays as such, as individual works of art each of which is to a certain extent self-contained and autonomous. They like the generalizations that can be drawn from them or put into them, the messages, the bits of uplift or downpush, the […]
