Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if read more

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a
comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose read more

The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a
comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose
within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator;
and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth
spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and
which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in
reference to the proposed result.