Art

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Let every man do that which is right, strive with all his might towards the goal which can never be obtained, develop to the last breath the gifts with which the gracious Creator has endowed him, and never cease to learn. For life is short, art eternal.

Shaw is undoubtedly one of the world’s greatest figures. I once said of him that his plays remind me of Mozart. There is not one superfluous word in Shaw’s prose, just as there is not one superfluous note in Mozart’s" music.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

The light that never was, on sea or land,

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

Do you want to know the great drama of my life? It’s that I have put my genius into my life; all I’ve put into my works is my talent.

The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in the glass.

The moral life of man forms part of the subject matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.

It is through Art, and through Art only, that we can realise our perfection; through Art, and through Art only, that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

All styles are good except the boring kind.

I cannot help it that my pictures do not sell. Nevertheless the time will come when people will see that they are worth more than the price of the paint.

The artist brings something into the world that didn’t exist before, and … he does it without destroying something else.

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.

If landscapes were sold, like the sheets of characters of my boyhood, one penny plain and twopence coloured, I should go the length of twopence every day of my life.

They said, ‘You have a blue guitar,

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

The trouble, Mr Goldwyn, is that you are only interested in art and I am only interested in money.