Posted by: Valeria Angelino
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
The errors are not in the art, but in the artificers.
Send
The errors are not in the art, but in the artificers.
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
The one way for us to become great, perhaps inimitable, is by imitating the ancients.
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.
Painting is stronger than I am. It can make me do whatever it wants.
Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
We are the digital archives of the African Pilocene, even of the Devon seas; we are the keepers of the wisdom of the times long gone. One could spend a whole life reading this ancient library and die without feeling full of its wonders.
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
When we talk about artistic freedom in this country we sometimes lose sight of the fact that freedom is often dependent on adequate financing.