The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Over time, naturally, you lose your innocence from gaining knowledge. You can't be innocent forever, but there's something in innocence you need to regain to be creative.
Innocence can be more powerful than experience.
I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience.
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
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.
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.
For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.