Art Theory Quotes
Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.