The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.

The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of read more

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

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.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates read more

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.