What is Art?

The one characteristic of art is that one can put into it whatever one wishes, and see in it whatever one chooses to see.
The Beauty, that gives to creation its universal and aesthetic element, makes the artist a creator, and whispers of a thousand different things which were not present in the mind of him who carved the statue or painted the panel or graved the gem.
The painter shows us the mystery of the soul through the mask of the body, through conventional images he can handle ideas.