
“Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.”
Notebook L (1945) edited by Edmund Wilson
Quoted, Notebooks
April 26, 1841
Journals (1838-1859)
“Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.”
Notebook L (1945) edited by Edmund Wilson
Quoted, Notebooks
“Only a distinctive individual can produce great art. Great art is synonymous with anonymous art.”
Source: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 73.
“Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending”
Elegiac Verse, st. 14 (1879).
Context: Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending;
Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.
“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”
Source: Elizabeth Day Damien Hirst: 'Art is childish and childlike' http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2010/sep/26/damien-hirst-art, The Guardian, 26 September 2010
“Greatness in art is always a by-product.”
Source: Art on the Edge, (1975), p. 231, "Shall These Bones Live?: Art Movement Ghosts"
“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.”
From his book House of Satan
“Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.”
The Pathos of Distance (1915), p. 120