There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

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.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

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.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Great art picks up where nature ends.