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- No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
- Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
- In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never…
- The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
- The secret of life is in art.
- It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.
- Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
- Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers…
- Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
- It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves…
- Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
- All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do…
- Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic…
- The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
- The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
- I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
- Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
- A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
- Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places…
- Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call…
- All art is at once surface and symbol.
- Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of…
- A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is.…
- Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely…
- The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The…
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