Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
In art the best is good enough.
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
All art is quite useless.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
Art is the proper task of life.
