I do not say therefore that the art is greatest which gives most pleasure, because perhaps there is some art whose end it is to teach and not to please. I do not say the art is greatest which teaches the most, because there is some art whose end it is to please and not […]
Art Quotes
When he (W. B. Yeats) sat for me he wore a velvet coat and a huge loose bow tie and a big lock of hair fell across his brow. He told me that he did these things to remind himself of his own importance as an artist! “Why,” quietly interrupted Fox, “didn’t he tie a […]
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life.
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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.
