“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing withou...” — Emile Zola Quote

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

But you said so yourself,the poor lass will die of it...Do you really want her to die?

Selling beauty is something I can understand. Even selling false beauty seems perfectly natural; it's a sign of progress.

I defy you to find any real will, any reasoning force, outside of life. And everything is there; there is, in the world, no other will than this force which impels everything to life, a life even broader and higher.

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

With time, art developed Bip, my alter ego. He was not only a lion tamer or a street musician but a soldier revealing the tragedy of ephemeral life.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.