Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.
A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.
My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.
Art and life are seen to be rich and mutually enriching
The art of peaceful living comes down to living compassionately & wisely.
My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.
Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own...
It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that, for that beauty east of the sun and west of the moon which is past the reach of all but our most desperate...
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean ...
Whoever I love is the most beautiful.
Even the most beautiful sheets have small flaws.
In the twentieth century, one encounters artworks that seek to cancel the difference between a real and an imagined reality by presenting themselves in ways that make them indistinguishable from real objects. Should we take this trend as an internal ...
Art has no immediate future because all art is collective and there is no more collective life(there are only dead collections of people), and also because of this breaking of the true pact between the body and the soul. Greek art coincided with the ...
Life is beautiful. It's even more beautiful when you learn to see the beauty in the midst of ugliness and in and around you.
You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them.
I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.
I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
