If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
All great art is born of the metropolis.
But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.
Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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