“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.”

“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.”

“The perfection of art is to conceal art.”

“Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.”

“The history of art is the history of revivals.”