artiste quotes

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

-Bernard
  Memories of My Life.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.

-Willa Sibert Cather
  The Song of the Lark, pt.6, ch.11.

The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men not having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.

- G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
  Heretics, ch.17.

   4. The chosen and male shall go forth unto professions while the chosen and female shall be homely, fecund, docile and slightly artistic.

- A(lison) L(ouise) Kennedy
  Looking for thePossible Dance,'The Scottish Methodfor the Perfection of Children'.

The whole basis of the views of architecture prevailing today must be displaced by therecognition that the only possible point of departure for our artistic creation is modern life.

- Otto Wagner
  Modern Architecture (1895), preface.

Art should be independent of all clap-trapshould stand alone, and appeal totheartisticsense ofeye orear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements'and 'harmonies'.

-James (Abbott) McNeill Whistler
  The GentleArt of Making Enemies.