art Quotes

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

O, had I but followed the arts!

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.