Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art

Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.

Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.

Art is running away without ever leaving home.

Art is running away without ever leaving home.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

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 moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Works of art are all that survive of incredibly gifted people.

Works of art are all that survive of incredibly gifted people.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

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.]