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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.rn
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.rn
One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.
One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.
As all Nature's thousands changes
But one changeless God proclaim;
So in Art's wide kingdom ranges
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As all Nature's thousands changes
But one changeless God proclaim;
So in Art's wide kingdom ranges
One sole meaning still the same:
This is Truth, eternal Reason,
Which from Beauty takes its dress,
And serene through time and season
Stands aye in loveliness.
The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and
music are but the blazon of its read more
The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and
music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their
significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's
uses.
- Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),
Art always has something of the unconscious about it.
Art always has something of the unconscious about it.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
There is nothing new in art except talent.rn
There is nothing new in art except talent.rn