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“I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to the highest elevation, and how from so noble a situation it is possible to fall to utmost ruin, and consequently, how these arts resemble nature as shown in our human bodies.”

Humans Art Body Artist Fall Wish Situation Teaching Highest Noble Ruins Human Body Elevation Small Beginnings

Author:Giorgio Vasari

“The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.”

Whole Artist Interest Fields Perception Highest Details

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“My priciple is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly regardless of contemporary criticism.”

Artist Highest Criticism Contemporary Bitterness

Author:Sidney Lanier

“The first impression and a natural one is, that the fine arts have risen or declined in proportion as patronage has been given to them or withdrawn, but it will be found that there has often been more money lavished on them in their worst periods than in their best, and that the highest honours have frequently been bestowed on artists whose names are scarcely now known.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

“The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.”

Art Artist Highest Blind Instinct Strive Depth Following Appearance Artistic Lowest Strife

Book:Goethe on Art

Source: Goethe on Art

“The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.”

Men Art Artist Religious Highest Art Is Raphael Scoffing Michael Angelo

Book:On beauty: three discourses delivered in the University of Edinburgh

Source: On beauty: three discourses delivered in the University of Edinburgh