Art

Art is the proper task of life

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Every artist was first an amateur

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat

Libraries are not made, they grow

A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature

Nature is the art of God

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable

Any healthy man can go without food for two days, but not without poetry

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: The bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does

The arts of peace are great, And no less glorious than those of war

One may do whatever one likes in art: the only thing is to make sure that one does not like it

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably

Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks

An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains

There is nothing new in art except talent

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.