The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he’s in business.
Art Quotes
By the time the child can draw more than scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well formed body of conceptual knowledge formulated in language dominates his memory and controls his graphic work. Drawings are graphic accounts of essentially verbal processes. As an essentially verbal education gains control, the child abandons […]
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.
Art is choice.
The history of art is the history of revivals.
Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame.
Art, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as “One day a wag – what would the wretch be at? Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god’s name! . . .”
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restrainst it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Art is the triumph over chaos.
Artlessness, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.
