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.

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on read more

Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.

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 the proper task of life.

Art is the proper task of life.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

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 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.