The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

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

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a
surplice peg,
We have learned read more

We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a
surplice peg,
We have learned to bottle our parent twain in the yelk of an
addled egg.
We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by
the cart,
But the devil never whoops, as he of old; It's clever, but is it
art?

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

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.]

I shut my eyes in order to see.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

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