Art is long, life is short. —Ars longa, vita brevis

Art is long, life is short. —Ars longa, vita brevis

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if read more

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

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

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

Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

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.