Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his
master; thus your art must read more

Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his
master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
[It., L'arte vostra quella, quanto puote,
Seque, come il maestro fa il discente;
Si che vostr'arte a Dio quasi e nipote.]

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Art is what's left over after you've defined everything else

Art is what's left over after you've defined everything else

All passes, Art alone
Enduring stays to us;
The Bust out-lasts the throne,--
The read more

All passes, Art alone
Enduring stays to us;
The Bust out-lasts the throne,--
The coin, Tiberius.

Art always has something of the unconscious about it.

Art always has something of the unconscious about it.

His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand;
His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;
Still born to read more

His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand;
His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;
Still born to improve in every part,
His pencil out faces, his manners are heart.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

I shut my eyes in order to see.