EssayNo great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.Oscar WildeIntentions · 1891★ 3.7
Obituary · NewspaperTo be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.Akira KurosawaThe New York Times★ 3.7
LetterIn art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists.Paul Gauguin1895★ 3.6
NovelBut the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom: to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition—and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives: to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain.Joseph Conrad1897★ 3.6
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