Aphorisms , Section I, 1. Art is a half-effaced recollection of a higher state from which we have fallen since the time of Eden. That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
Criticism is easy, art is difficult.
Le Glorieux , 1732. First, it must be the indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable. From an interview with Walter Pach in Scribner's Magazine , May, 1912. You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat. Pierre Auguste Renoir.