Art is the proper task of life.

Art is the proper task of life.

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

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

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

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if read more

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

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.

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

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.

In art, the obvious is a sin.

In art, the obvious is a sin.