"The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art." ― Friedrich Nietzsche Topic(s): Art Tags: gains, respect, through More From Friedrich Nietzsche "The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude." "He who laughs best today, will also laughs last." "The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god." More In Art "Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."― Plato "To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there’s no such thing as perfect."― Alexander Calder "Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake."― E. M. Forster