Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.
When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.
Art will never be able to exist without nature.
Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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