Month: July 2023

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks. Winston S. Churchill

Art is the right hand of Nature.The latter only gave us being, but the former gave us men. Friedrich Schiller, Fiesco, 1783

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it than through art. Goethe, Elective Affinities, 1809

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, 1921 Not to go to the theatre is like m...

Art is a jealous mistress. Emerson, Wealth, in The Conduct of Life, 1860 The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge f...

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. Émile Zola, Mes haines, 1866

It is the glory and good of art that art remains the one way possible of speaking the truth. Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book, 1868 Life is very nice, but...

It is through Art, and through only Art … that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence. Oscar Wilde, “Intentions,” ...

Art always serves beauty and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it. Boris Pastern...

An artist is a creature driven by demons.  He doesn’t know why they chose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. William Faulkner, 1958 An art...