“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”

“I cry out for order and find it only in art.”

“The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can’t have both.”

“Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.”

“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.”

“The great artist is a slave to his ideals.”

“Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.”

“All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.”

“An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.”

“The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.”

“Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”

“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”

“Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.”

“Art is the triumph over chaos.”

“Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.”