Austin O'Malley
Austin O'Malley
art character infusion
The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.
art wheat-fields imagination
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
art art-is
That art is best which suggests most.
art philosophy steam
Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam.
art men serious
Art is one of man's few serious activities.
art pints
Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.
art swings form
The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again.
art perfection source
The perfection of art is to conceal the sources.
art awkward technique
Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.
art feels knows
Art knows, life applies knowledge; art feels, life acts.
best blood fool fools-and-foolishness mosquito
The best blood will sometimes get into a fool or a mosquito
sermons
Sermons are like piecrust, the shorter the better
against creed hold laugh martyrdom truth unto
Some that will hold a creed unto martyrdom will not hold the truth against a sneering laugh
facts theory tires
Facts are carpet-tacks under the pneumatic tires of theory