Layer by layer art strips life bare.

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

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.

Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.

Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

It is the glory and good of Art,
That Art remains the one way possible
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It is the glory and good of Art,
That Art remains the one way possible
Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

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 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.

Art happens - no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring read more

Art happens - no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made read more

There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.