A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by man that is not beautiful, for God's manifestation is beauty. It shines through all His works, and not only in those that may give pleasure to man.
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
Death is an art, you know.