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.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

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.

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the read more

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: read more

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within read more

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul

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

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

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, read more

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.