What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.

Quote by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

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What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

In art the best is good enough.

In art the best is good enough.

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions,...

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions,...

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist...

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist...

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior,...

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior,...

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of...

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of...

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim

To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet...

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet...

I shut my eyes in order to see.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a...

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a...