The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.
As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring.
The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
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