The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become read more

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink read more

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is read more

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. - The Art of Being Ruled.

Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. - The Art of Being Ruled.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind read more

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.