Aesthetics

“The only way for us to become great, and even, if it is possible, inimitable, is by imitating the ancients.”

“Як я уявляю, гарний фільм повинен будуватися як музичний твір.”

“Ja mam tyle pieniędzy, że on ma być we wszystkich stylach.”

“It all comes down to the quality of the song.”

“The concept of originality is completely relative.”

“so it came that being in the bush and feeling the delight and fascination of the great pastoral life and work I have tried to express it”

“I invent everything in my painting. And I stylize whatever it was that I saw or felt.”

“My main talent is turning trauma into something that looks showbizzy.”

““...veo cómo podré sobresalir entre artistas nuevos fácilmente porque tengo más sentido de la composición y el color que la mayoría de ellos.””

“Whistler ... was his favourite painter, and with him Puvis de Chavannes.”

“The only way for us to become great, and indeed—if this is possible—inimitable, is by imitating the ancients.”

““It is no small thing to achieve a painting that is decorative.””

“If you want to be remembered, you’re better not to be beautiful.”

“I believe that the sentimental has a place in poetry.”

“Art can be seen as imitation of life, whereas Eart is the life itself.”

“What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things.”

“The Otira Gorge ... forms a tract of the most enchanting scenery in the Colony, not to be equalled by anything of a similar kind I have yet seen in any part of the world.”

“Neither philosophy nor literature. Nothing but a painting.”

“Mi sentimiento es mexicano, mi color es mexicano, mis formas son mexicanas, pero mi concepto es una mezcla.”

“Složení uhlí se dá časově odhadnout. Složení hudby ne.”