Quote of the Day
November 15, 2026
“I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.”
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.
