Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.
Art expresses man.
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.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.
To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.