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Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, read more
Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.
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.
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art
Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art
Art is the proper task of life.
Art is the proper task of life.
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the read more
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n nature warm;
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.
The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n nature warm;
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.