No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
Art Quotes
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
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.
