Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made read more

There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, read more

Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

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.

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

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

Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on read more

Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.

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

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

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.