If only it be admitted that art may be unintelligible to any one of sound mind and yet be art, there is no reason why any circle of perverted people should not compose works tickling their own perverted feelings and comprehensible to no one but themselves, and call it ‘art’.
Art Quotes
Works of art can wait: indeed they do nothing but that and do it passionately.
An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keep out of it.
Art takes whatever – and as long as – it takes.
All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another; and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
The artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.
