The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
