Art consists in so depicting the common events of life as to bring out the features which illustrate the author’s idiosyncratic mode of regard.
Art Quotes
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination.
The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
Human life is a sad show, undoubtedly: ugly, heavy and complex. Art has no other end, for people of feeling, than to conjure away the burden and bitterness.
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
The artist must no more appear in his work than God in nature.
In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.
Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
