Art Quotes

"The writer is either serious or he is not serious, and all depends on this."

"A writer who won't invest himself personally in his work is merely a secretary."

"The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement."

"What befits us, well begun and well continued, is to recognize our duty to the beautiful."

"What is art but life upon the larger scale."

"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance."

"The morality of a work of art is in its tone."

"A writer without a sense of responsibility is simply a man of letters."

"Form is content and substance are one."

"We must grant the artist his donnée."

"Art comes from the soul first, and the hand follows."

"Art has its source in man's desire to express himself, and this desire is as old as humanity."

"Art allows us to experience the infinite."

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."

"Art is the only truth in a world of lies."

"Art is the effort of man to express the unspoken."

"Art without life is merely decoration."

"The artist must be true to himself."

"Art is the soul speaking."

"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd."

"The success of a work of art is not a matter of its size, but of its quality."

"Art reflects the soul of society; neglect one and you corrupt the other."

"Art is the attempt to make permanent what is necessarily temporary."

"The sense of the real is the most important possession a writer can have"

"Art makes life, makes interest, makes importance"

"Art is the lie that allows us to see the deepest truths"

"Art is not meant to decorate walls. It is war against brutality and darkness."

"Style is the man himself."

"Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious."

"Fashion fades, only style remains the same."