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Piety in art--poetry in art--Puseyism in art--let us be careful
how we confound them.
Piety in art--poetry in art--Puseyism in art--let us be careful
how we confound them.
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, read more
Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
