Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
Art Quotes
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.
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets before the eye.
And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.
