I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their p...leasure comes from what they know about things, and their pride from showing off what they know. But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even a friendly conversation which cannot be at any given moment be broken off voluntarily with complete arbitrariness has somethi...ng illiberal about it. An artist, however, who is able and wants to express himself completely, who keeps nothing to himself and would wish to say everything he knows, is very much to be pitied.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much mon...ey bestowed on men without souls and without education.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People who begin sentences with "I may be old-fashioned but--" are usually not only old-fashioned but wrong. I never thought the t...ime would come when I should catch myself leading off with that crack. But I feel it coming on right now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the artist Jonas' name appeared in the gazettes, he began to be called upon, like all other celebrities, to denounce very revol...ting injustices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Medusa, come, we'll turn him into stone," they shouted all together glaring down, "how wrong we were to let off Theseus lightly!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he become...s historical. He acts from or upon other artists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »