“Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.”
― The Art Spirit
― The Art Spirit
“Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.”
― The Art of Literature
― The Art of Literature
“What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.”
― The Art Spirit
― The Art Spirit
“A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.”
― The Art Spirit
― The Art Spirit
“There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.”
― The Art Spirit
― The Art Spirit
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