Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.
Art is the path of the creator to his work.
Art is the signature of civilizations.
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
Art, that great undogmatized church.
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
Art? the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.
Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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