In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.
Art Quotes
Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
Art is the most beautiful deception: and no matter how much a man may wish to make it the setting for his daily life, he must still desire that it remain an illusion lest it become utilitarian, and as dreamy as a workshop. Do not the masses as well as the select few seek therein […]
Painting is a science and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but the experiments.
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
