L’étude du beau est un duel où l’artiste crie de frayeur avant d’être vaincu. – Charles Baudelaire
L’étude du beau est un duel où l’artiste crie de frayeur avant d’être vaincu. – Charles Baudelaire
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake. – E.M. Forster
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake. – E.M. Forster
Art is either revolution or plagiarism – Paul Gauguin
Art is either revolution or plagiarism – Paul Gauguin
Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language. – Aldo Leopold
Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language. – Aldo Leopold
…I do not want art for a few; any more than education for a few; or freedom for a few… – William Morris
…I do not want art for a few; any more than education for a few; or freedom for a few… – William Morris
The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable. – Thomas Henry Huxley
The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable. – Thomas Henry Huxley
Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus. – Wayne Thiebaud
Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus. – Wayne Thiebaud
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. – George Bernard Shaw
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. – George Bernard Shaw
Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old. – Jasper Johns
Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old. – Jasper Johns
Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production. – Raymond Chandler
Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production. – Raymond Chandler
The beautiful is always bizarre. – Charles Baudelaire
The beautiful is always bizarre. – Charles Baudelaire
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way… things I had no words for. – Georgia O’Keeffe
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way… things I had no words for. – Georgia O’Keeffe