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….

Art has to be a kind of confession. I don't mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it seems to me, is: if you can ex….

The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public..

Great art can only be created out of love..

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish sou….

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't star….

No one expects to attain to the height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without vigorous resolution, strenuous diligence….

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence..

Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned..

works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which lets them drift ….

Growing up and applying to college, I just imagined that I would study acting. But then, once I went to college, I realized I was more interested in ….

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience..