The creation and sale of most art today is pure prostitution. The comparison is true in every detail. Real art can only rarely be created even by a real artist; like a child in a mother’s womb, it is the ripened fruit of his prior life. False art, though, can be ceaselessly produced by craftsmen, […]
Art Quotes
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.
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts, the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others, but of the three the only trustworthy one is the last.
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.
