Collection of phrases and quotes about art.
If you wish to be a writer, write!
With a little imagination, you can easily live your whole life in an afternoon.
Hollywood is like being nowhere talking to nobody about nothing.
The purpose of art is to give form to the secret essence of things, not to merely copy their appearance.
By building well, one becomes a good architect.
Eternity is one of the rare virtues of literature.
I will not reason, nor compare; my task is to create.
In a flock of white doves, a black crow adds even more beauty than the candor of a swan.
My criticisms are light and without venom, because there is none in my heart, and I detest it in literature.
I usually read the preface in all the books, because sometimes it tends to be the best part of the work.
The art of painting consists of lightening and darkening the tones without decorating them.
Beauty is that beautiful mystery that neither psychology nor rhetoric can decipher.