Time extracts various values from a painter’s work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
Art Quotes
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
The value of art is not beauty, but right action.
It is well with me when only when I have a chisel in my hand.
The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down hill.
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor’s hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
