Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating read more

Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.rn

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.rn

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

Art is the objectification of feeling and the subjectification of nature.

Art is the objectification of feeling and the subjectification of nature.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit read more

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.

We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a
surplice peg,
We have learned read more

We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a
surplice peg,
We have learned to bottle our parent twain in the yelk of an
addled egg.
We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by
the cart,
But the devil never whoops, as he of old; It's clever, but is it
art?

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

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