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“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous tr...”
“We would – or at least we should – take upon ourselves the ultimate task of our poet: to seek the face of God.”
“As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men—so the world of Reality exists for all; and all may particip...”
“If you write literary fiction that’s set partly in the future, you’re apparently a sci-fi writer ... I think of it as being more of a story about what remains after we lose everything and the impor...”
“All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.”
“…I have fallen in love with a painting. Though that phrase doesn’t seem to suffice, not really—rather’s it that I have been drawn into the orbit of a painting, have allowed myself to be pulled into...”
“A lot of film people are like that– especially the ones below the line, the blue-collar guys, the grunts. They like putting their hands on the equipment and getting it to do things for them. It's n...”
“But I reckon that this realm of higher needs, of something more than just forgetting about everyday life, of mere recreation, this realm of needs has been clearly neglected by us.”
“Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.”
“An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit.”
“(Ars longa vita brevis.) Art is long life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.”
“A work of art cannot be satisfied with being a representation it should be a presentation.”
“Artists are the antennae of the race but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.”
“Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give.”
“Artists by definition innocent don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.”
“Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.”
“Fine art is that in which the hand the head and the heart of man go together.”
“Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.”
“I wonder whether Art has a higher function than to make me feel appreciate and enjoy natural objects for their art value?”
“If artists and poets are unhappy it is after all because happiness does not interest them.”
