Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
Art is all a matter of personality.
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.