Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.
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Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.
In art good intentions are not of the smallest value. All bad art is the result of good intentions.
I don't search. I find.
When we talk about artistic freedom in this country we sometimes lose sight of the fact that freedom is often dependent on adequate financing.
Are you an artist? So suffer.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.
I'm going to walk in the forest of Fontainebleau, I want to have a green indigestion, I have to somehow free myself from this sensation in a painting.
There is a certain poverty in our critic. We assume that there are only few great men, and that the remaining are small; that there is only one Homer, only one Shakespeare, only one Newton, only one Socrates. But the soul, in its radiant hours, doesn't recognize these usurpations. We should know how to praise Socrates, or Plato, or St. John, without impoverishing.
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
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 start measuring her limbs.