What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
What is art but a way of seeing?
What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.
When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it — a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand — as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
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