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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. (Coyote Peter)
The perfection of art is to conceal art. (Coyote Peter)
Art is too serious to be taken seriously. (Coyote Peter)
He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci] (Coyote Peter)
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. (Coyote Peter)
What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it? (Coyote Peter)
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out. (Coyote Peter)
Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith. (Coyote Peter)
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. (Coyote Peter)
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. (Coyote Peter)
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. (Coyote Peter)
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. (Coyote Peter)
The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite. (Coyote Peter)
As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys. (Coyote Peter)
Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm. (Coyote Peter)
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. (Coyote Peter)
All art is an imitation of nature. (Coyote Peter)
The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream] (Coyote Peter)
O, had I but followed the arts! (Coyote Peter)
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. (Coyote Peter)
Art is the signature of civilizations. (Coyote Peter)
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