Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.
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Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.
In art good intentions are not of the smallest value. All bad art is the result of good intentions.
I don't search. I find.
When we talk about artistic freedom in this country we sometimes lose sight of the fact that freedom is often dependent on adequate financing.
Are you an artist? So suffer.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.
I'm going to walk in the forest of Fontainebleau, I want to have a green indigestion, I have to somehow free myself from this sensation in a painting.
There is a certain poverty in our critic. We assume that there are only few great men, and that the remaining are small; that there is only one Homer, only one Shakespeare, only one Newton, only one Socrates. But the soul, in its radiant hours, doesn't recognize these usurpations. We should know how to praise Socrates, or Plato, or St. John, without impoverishing.
This glorious tragedy we call modern art.
Almost always what affects the moral beauty doubles the poetic beauty. With virtue only quiet and cold paintings are made, it is the passion and vice those that animate compositions of the painter, poet and musician.