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 man's expression of his joy in labor.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

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.

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 is the most beautiful of all lies.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Art always has something of the unconscious about it.

Art always has something of the unconscious about it.

His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand;
His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;
Still born to read more

His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand;
His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;
Still born to improve in every part,
His pencil out faces, his manners are heart.