Who said “Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.”?

“Art is science made clear.”

“Every artist was first an amateur.”

“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.”

“Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.”

“I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”

“It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.”

“The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.”

“Between religion's ''this is'' and poetry's ''but suppose this is,'' there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity.”

“In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.”

“Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.”

“The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.”