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Art for art's sake.
[Lat., Ars gratia artis.]
Art for art's sake.
[Lat., Ars gratia artis.]
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand;
His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;
Still born to read more
His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand;
His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;
Still born to improve in every part,
His pencil out faces, his manners are heart.
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.
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an
art of writing.
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an
art of writing.
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit read more
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.
To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.