George Jean Nathan Art Quotations

A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.

Art is the sex of the imagination.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.