No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.
There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
Art is not meant to change the world.
Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.
Nothing convinces an artist more of the arbitrariness of the means to which he resorts to attain a goal - however permanent it may be - than the creative process itself, the process of composition.
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
Art will never be able to exist without nature.
Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and conceptually not present.
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.