Letter

 1 Introd   |      Sentimentale, master of his art, hardening in his convictions,
 2 Introd   |       her, finally, the literary art is an instrument of social
 3 Introd   | aspiration; for him the literary art is the avenue of escape
 4 Introd   |         libertine, in matters of art he exhibited the intolerance
 5 Introd   |    concern, namely, you show for art just now. As regards glory
 6 Introd   |         there I approve. But for art!—the one thing in life that
 7 Introd   |        is to shut yourself up in art, and count everything else
 8 Introd   |     aspiration to an “impersonal art.”~If we were seeking to
 9 Introd   |     NOTHING BUT HIMSELF into his art, we should ask for no more
10 Introd   |        sympathy. In the field of art and literature we have abandoned
11 I        |       January, 1863, Questions d’art et de litterature.] and
12 XXI      |        labors and of our love of art. What is art without the
13 XXI      |         our love of art. What is art without the hearts and minds
14 XXVII    |  impressionable, sincere, loving art, not corrupted by ambition,
15 XXXII    |          of water. Hard labor at art is necessary for me before
16 XXXIII   |    serious, and hovers above our art, above us troubadours, more
17 XXXV     |      little bread-and-butter and art a little pot-boiler, all
18 XXXVII   |           he would be a monster. Art is not made to paint the
19 XL       |      picture. I think that great art is scientific and impersonal.
20 XLIV     |          of love, friendship, of art, of enthusiasm, and of faith.
21 LXXIV    |       moral anemia.~I think that art always needs a palette overflowing
22 LXXXVII  |        it. (That is a part of my art of poetry.) I limit myself,
23 LXXXVII  |        to make justice a part of art? The impartiality of painting
24 XCI      |          any well who love their art? What a quantity of artists
25 C        |        of what you say about it, art could well be your sole
26 CI       |     incompetent in the matter of art. Even what art means escapes
27 CI       |         matter of art. Even what art means escapes them. The
28 CX       |        it amusing and to explain art; it is a new form for me
29 CXXXIV   |       other.~One needs the great art, the exquisite form and
30 CXXXIX   |       printed in the Questions d’art et de litterature, Calmann-Levy,
31 CLVI     |         mistaken and it degrades art.~This is my SINCERE answer,
32 CLVII    |         taste, her reverence for art, and (2) because of her
33 CLXIV    |        of rendering it useful to art when one believes in that,
34 CLXV     |         dogmatic opinions on the art of writing. It will be an
35 CLXXVIII |        the time of Pericles made art without knowing if they
36 CLXXXVIII|          of a family! They asked art to be moral, philosophy
37 CXCIV    |          pray is bothering about art nowadays? I make literature
38 CXCVII   |      religion, in philosophy, in art. My sentiment and my reason
39 CCI      |       modern criticism abandoned art for history? The intrinsic
40 CCXIII   |           It was a great loss to art, that premature death. In
41 CCXLV    |     little attention to works of art? Who is the critic who reads
42 CCXLVII  |          maintain that a work of art (worthy of that name and
43 CCLI     |          is the principal thing.~Art continues to be “in the
44 CCLIX    |        through with the dramatic art. Carvalho came here last
45 CCLXX    |         government whatever, for art!~I am reading now books
46 CCLXXII  |         my fall involves neither art nor sentiment I am profoundly
47 CCLXXIII |           One would say that the art of the theatre goes beyond
48 CCLXXXV  |         there is something above art: namely, wisdom, of which
49 CCLXXXV  |         namely, wisdom, of which art at its apogee is only the
50 CCLXXXVII|          anyone can criticise an art of which he does not know
51 CCC      |         extended vision of life. Art is not merely painting.
52 CCC      |      soul that wields the brush. Art is not merely criticism
53 CCC      |         is for me the purpose of art, being good and bad, he
54 CCCI     |        according to the ideal of art that I have, I think that
55 CCCI     |        you do, dear master, that art is not merely criticism
56 CCCII    |         old age. It is then that art reveals itself in its sweetness;
57 CCCII    |    resume which becomes literary art in its fullest expression;
58 CCCII    |  irrationality. They pitied her; art required that, but the lesson
59 CCCII    |     human either. I believe that art, this special art of narration,
60 CCCII    |   believe that art, this special art of narration, is only worth
61 CCCIV    |          thing, it is not all of art, it is not even half of
62 CCCV     |          us today? Is it eternal art? I ask you that.~Other writers
63 CCCVI    |         my way of thinking, that art ought to be the search for
64 CCCVIII  |        what is for me the end of art, namely, beauty. I remember
65 CCCVIII  |  entirely, for on the other side art has to be a good fellow;
66 CCCVIII  |         a good fellow; or rather art is what one can make it,