“You only need enough experience to master the art.”— Lailah Gifty Akita Related Quotes “People need new things to excite them, new inventions, new ideas, new art, new drugs, if there are no new things, then they resort to war”— Robert Black “I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.”– Paul Cezanne “Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold. Their knowledge of the fine arts is some study of rules and particulars, or some limited judgment of color or form which is exercised for amusement or for show. It is a proof of the shallowness of the doctrine of beauty, as it lies in the minds of our amateurs, that men seem to have lost the perception of the instant dependence of form upon soul.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson