“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.”

“Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.”

“The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.”

“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.”

“O, had I but followed the arts!”

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

“I paint with shapes.”

“Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.”

“True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.”

“There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.”

“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”