Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason read more

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid read more

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which read more

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.