Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make read more

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct--it's an art.

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct--it's an art.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and
music are but the blazon of its read more

The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and
music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their
significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's
uses.
- Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.