The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.
Art Quotes
The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can’t have both.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance… and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!
Every art is best taught by example. Nothing contributes more to the cultivation of propriety than remarks on the works of those who have most excelled.
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people, He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for a better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it […]
An artist never finshes his work; he only abandons it.
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
