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.
Art Quotes
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 […]
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you… It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it.
Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of Art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible, truer than the truth.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance; for this, not the external mannerism and detail, is true reality.
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
