Love of beauty is taste, the creation of beauty is Art; it is the proper task of life, for life imitates art far more than art imitates life & life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. It is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
They say bad artists always admire each others work. In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. It is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist. The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work. It is the window to a man's soul, which without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. It is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it & the moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
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.
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
All art requires courage, without it, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors; Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.
I shut my eyes in order to see, for art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Art is not a thing; it is a way; Works of art are all that survive of incredibly gifted people.
I put my heart and my soul into my work (art), and have lost my mind in the process.
To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
It is through art and through art only that we can realize our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence. It is never finished, only abandoned.
Art is what's left over after you've defined everything else.
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love others.
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