Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Drawing is the true test of art.

Drawing is the true test of art.

Piety in art--poetry in art--Puseyism in art--let us be careful
how we confound them.

Piety in art--poetry in art--Puseyism in art--let us be careful
how we confound them.

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they
being both the servants of his read more

Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they
being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection
of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there
were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another.
In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of
God.

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

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

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

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

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),