art Quotes

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.