The whole of art is an appeal to a reality which is not without us but in our minds. I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. Charles Dudley Warner. There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun. The Return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
All art is at once surface and symbol.
Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. Art is the right hand of nature. The latter only gave us being, but the former made us men. Friedrich Von Schiller.