Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present..

I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In great art, this conflict is….

To know one thing, you must know the opposite..

Tolerance of diversity is imperative, because without it, life would lose its savor. Progress in the arts, in the sciences, in the patterns of social….

Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed in nature.-The artist b….

All art is an abstraction to some degree..

All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit a title takes away part ….

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way..

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work..

Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not….

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers..

Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art..

Our universe cannot even be stated symbolically. And this touches us all more directly than one might suppose. For example, artists, who have been ve….

The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are studying the symbols by which man a….

In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting..

I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur..

We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes in sacred history. Yet, u….

The closer you get to God, the more you become yourself..

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be united with another hu….

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority..

Antique art has come down to us in a fragmentary condition, and we have virtuously adapted our taste to this necessity. Almost all our favorite speci….