When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God-made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
Art Quotes
All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man.
Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
When you’re looking at your canvas and worrying about it, try to think of your canvas as the reality and the model as the painted thing.
Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship… In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God.
I believe in art that conceals art.
An artist must only judge what he understands; his field is just as restricted as any other specialists.
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.
