Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.

The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.

What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

The moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.

The criterion which we use to test the genuineness of apparent statements of fact is the criterion of verifiability. We say that a sentence is factually signif…

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the caus…

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful. For this appears to me the safest answer to give both to myself and others; and adhering to this, I t…