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A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.
The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to read more
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make read more
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
