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Abstract art? A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself. Sec.

Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon. Sec.

Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. Speech to Royal Academy of Art (); quoted in Time (May , )

Van Gogh would've sold more than one painting if he'd put tigers in them.

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

It is the artistic process, therefore, that is reality and reality is truth.

The artistic activity does not lie in art itself as such. It penetrates into a deeper world in which all art forms (of things inwardly experienced) flow together, and in which the harmony of soul and cosmos in the nothing has its outcome in reality.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

Art is never decoration or embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.