The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it.
You can't get so interested in just making sounds. The point of it all is some kind of expression.
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.
For most of us, art is supposed to do something more than simply mirror the confusions of the world.
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
