Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own
nature into his pictures.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own
nature into his pictures.

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.

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

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

A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the
utterly bewildered.

A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the
utterly bewildered.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Art thou a friend to Roderick?

Art thou a friend to Roderick?

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within read more

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul

Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they
being both the servants of his read more

Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they
being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection
of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there
were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another.
In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of
God.