“It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks... where written comments and personal notes provide an intimate insight into the magical mind of a working artist.” MindArtistWrittenEssenceNotesInsightIntimatePocketsCommentClosestNotebookSketchbooks Author:Eugene Delacroix
“I'd like to understand why it seems normal to look at astonishing achievements made by unapproachably ambitious, luminously pious, strangely obsessed artists, and toss them off with a few wry comments.” LooksMadeSeemsArtistNormalAchievementCriticsObsessedCommentAmbitiousAstonishingPiousTossWry Book:Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings Source: Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings
“The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.” ArtRealityArtistMankindTrackCommentBloodyAssaultFogTrailsBenevolent Author:Camille Paglia
“That your own interpretation of a work of art is flagrantly subjective seems to be regarded as an arrogant attitude. But the truer view is that the interpretative artist can only make his own comment upon the work.” ArtSeemsArtistViewsAttitudeArt IsInterpretationWorks Of ArtCommentArrogantSubjective Author:Tyrone Guthrie