A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!
Art Quotes
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.
The coming into the presence of a piece of art you truly love causes a tremendous revolution to occur in you.
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
There is no better deliverance from the world than through art; and a man can form no surer bond with it than through art.
The art is long, life is short.
