artWe have art in order not to die of the truth.
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and uses only his reason; he argues carefully step by step, and needs no imagination. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers.
The artist is the creator of beautiful things.
To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.
If the world were clear, art would not exist.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
All bad art is the result of good intentions.
Art persists, it timelessly continues.
We call our selves the Fabulous Picasso brothers because Picasso represents fine art... and brothers..makes it sound like pizza delivery...
