Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist.