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Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite.
Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.
Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.
Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.
There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing.
You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.
What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.
Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.
Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.
Every city has a sex and age which have nothing to do with demography.
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.
The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.
I'm not for or against video - or any medium or style, for that matter.
Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.
Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist Church.
Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.
All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.
The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible.
No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.
A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like.
Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.
Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.
Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.