The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to read more

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more read more

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.

Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's read more

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art.

Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.