Clay Quote by Mary McCarthy

“She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.”

— Oscar Wilde

Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in defense of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“An artist so perfect reproduces the Mona Lisa, rubbished for being unoriginal proves talent & result unrelated.”

— A.C. Quinn

“I have seen statues that would look stodgy beside her, I have seen painted Madonnas whose features would be coarse beside her pale luminous…

— Philippa Gregory

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.

— Erica Jong

“I know from grim experience that there is a beauty to her inner layers, too. Marvels of symmetry and craftsmanship sealed away inside her…

— Isaac Marion

Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.

— Richard B. Garnett

Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.

— Joshua Reynolds

In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had…

— Toni Morrison

Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Peter is still amazed at the degree to which a certain widening gyre of accolades can change an artist's work, literally change it, not…

— Michael Cunningham

“There is not one single invention of (Nature's), however subtle or impressive it may be thought to be, that the human spirit cannot create;…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans