An artist must only judge what he understands; his field is just as restricted as any other specialists.
Art Quotes
Art is I; science is we.
What is art But life upon the larger scale, the higher, When, graduating up in a spiral line Of still expanding and ascending gyres, It pushes toward the intense significance Of all things, hungry for the Infinite? Art’s life, – and where we live, we suffer and toil.
An artist’s flair is sometimes worth a scientist’s brains.
There are two devices which can help the sculptor to judge his work: one is not to see it for a while – the other – whenever he has not the leisure for the former – is to look at his work through spectacles which will change its color and magnify or diminish it, so […]
One may do whatever one likes in art: the only thing is to make sure that one does not like it.
If Michelangelo painted in Caesar’s Palace, would that make it any less art?
Any great work of art… revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world – the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
Art should extend beyond itself to become an act of ethical reform, influencing public opinion, public action, and public contribution.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
