“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.”

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

“I believe only in art and failure.”

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

“To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.”

“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.”

“The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.”

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

“Life is short, the art long.”

“Art is not living. It is the use of living.”

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

“The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.”

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

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