“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”

“Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.”

“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.”

“Art is the objectification of feeling.”

“A great artist is a great man in a great child.”

“Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.”

“Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.”

“There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.”

“I believe only in art and failure.”

“Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.”

“That’s the motivation of an artist – to seek attention of some kind.”

“The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.”

“The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel’d to heaven is no artist.”

“If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.”

“Life is short, the art long.”