Posted by: Rosita Matera
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
A true artist behave like a bird laid down on a fragile branch that he feels to break down under his weight but he sings anyway because he knows he has wings.
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A true artist behave like a bird laid down on a fragile branch that he feels to break down under his weight but he sings anyway because he knows he has wings.
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.
It is bad to have others to compliantly what, with a noble art, we may do ourselves.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Art is a symbol, because man is a symbol.
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
All art is quite useless.