Art

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine

Life is not an exact science, it is an art

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below

I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born

He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter

When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

It requires more than mere genius to be an author

“Literature - the expression of a nation's mind in writing

A book ought to be the ax to break the frozen sea within us

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity