Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.

Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.

In art, the obvious is a sin.

In art, the obvious is a sin.

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),

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make read more

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work

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

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

All art requires courage.

All art requires courage.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.