God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.
God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work
The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure yet it is the same with this art as with all others only the capacity for it is innate the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.
Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
In action, and in love so radiant now;
Let all things be where thou art, childlike ever,
Thus thoult be all, thus, thou'lt be vanquish'd never.
Nature alone is illimitably rich, and Nature alone forms the great artist.
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament
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