Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Art Quotes
There have been a lot of unfortunate cases of writers, painters, who have been melancholic, depressed, taken their own lives. I don’t think it goes with the territory. I think those people would have been depressed, or alcoholic, suicidal, whatever, even if they weren’t writing. I just think it’s their characterological makeup. Whether that characterological […]
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
mr youse needn’t be so spry concernin questions arty each has his tastes but as for i i likes a certain party gimme the he-man’s solid bliss for youse ideas i’ll match youse a pretty girl who naked is is worth a million statues
There are, of course, real artists, doing real work, all over the Western world, struggling through all kinds of difficulties and obscurity to keep the magnificent tradition alive, and push it forward an inch or two. What a pity that the little attention they can get for their work in a frivolous, easily distracted age […]
When a work of art appears to be in advance of its period, it is really the period that has lagged behind the work of art.
Another viewer describes the unsettling physical dimension of the aesthetic flow experience, which resembles the shock a body feels when diving into a pool of cold water: When I see works that come close to my heart, that I think are really fine, I have the strangest reaction: which is not always exhilarating, it is […]
As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
