“Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.”

“Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.”

“To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.”

“Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.”

“Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.”

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

“The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.”

“Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.”

“The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.”

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.”

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

“Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.”

“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”

“The man who has no imagination has no wings.”