“The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.”

“The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.”

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”

“So vast is art, so narrow human wit.”

“The best artists know what to leave out.”

“Man lives by imagination.”

“The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.”

“I shut my eyes in order to see.”

“Every good painter paints what he is.”

“I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.”

“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.”

“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.”

“Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.”

“Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.”

“The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.”