It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

And art has come to be a spectator of itself, the way it reacts, what newspapers write about it; the artist is a performer. That is how it is. Art does not know a beyond, science does not know a beyond, religion does not know a beyond, not anymore. Our world is enclosed around itself, enclosed around us, and there is no way out of it.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.

you never will love art well, till you love what she mirrors better

Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Art is to look at not to criticize.

Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

Drama holds a mirror up to life, but needn't reproduce it.

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.