It had been like conscience to him. Yes, it had been conscience. He would destroy it.
Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.
But now and then a complex personality took the place and assumed the office of art; was indeed, in its way, a real work of art, Life having its elaborate masterpieces, just as poetry has, or sculpture, or painting.
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
… Gothic art... this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.
interviewer: How do you know when you're finished with a painting?
Jackson Pollock: How do you know when you're finished making love?
Simplicity, truth and naturalness are the three great principles of beauty in all works of art.
Plato said: ‘He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration in the belief that craftsmanship alone suffices will remain a bungler and his presumptuous poetry will be obscured by the songs of the maniacs.’