I don't paint nature. I am nature.
I do not paint nature. I am nature.
The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.
Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.
The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
