I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit read more

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.

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.

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.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: read more

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication

Art is running away without ever leaving home.

Art is running away without ever leaving home.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie,
and are connect as it were by read more

All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie,
and are connect as it were by some relationship.
[Lat., Etenim omnes artes, quae ad humanitatem pertinent, habent
quoddam commune vinculum, et quasi cognatione quadam inter se
continentur.]

Art [of healing] is long, but life is fleeting.
[Lat., Art longa, vita brevis est.]

Art [of healing] is long, but life is fleeting.
[Lat., Art longa, vita brevis est.]