The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]
The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
The true poem is the poet's mind.
The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
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