Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877 - 1947) on Art
Industry without art is brutality.
The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.
Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art made by art, but not itself art. The art remains in the artist and is the knowledge by which things are made.
“Let us tell them the painful truth, that most of these works of art are about God, whom we never mention in polite society.”