“So vast is art, so narrow human wit.”
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“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.”
“Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.”
“Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.”
“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”
“Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.”
“It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.”
“Art is born of humiliation.”
“The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.”
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”
“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.”
“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.”
“Art is not a thing it is a way.”
“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”
“Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”
“Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.”
“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.”
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
“Every good painter paints what he is.”
“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”