All Quotes

When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it must be by employing them in their legitimate occupation. ”

How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others. By working frankly from our convictions, we are going to make them work frankly from theirs. ”

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die. ”

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization. ”

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created. ”

How often it consoles me to think of barbarism once more flooding the world, and real feelings and passions, however rudimentary, taking the place of our wretched hypocrisies. ”

Give me love and work - these two only. ”

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. ”

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last. ”

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung. ”