“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.”

“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.”

“Form follows function.”

“All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.”

“A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.”

“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.”

“Every great inspiration is but an experiment – though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.”

“Every song is like a painting.”

“I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.”

“Entertainment and art are not isolated.”

“Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.”

“In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.”

“Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.”

“I am not strong on perfection.”

“The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.”