“What is art but a way of seeing?”

“An empty canvas is a living wonder… far lovelier than certain pictures.”

“Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.”

“Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.”

“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.”

“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.”

“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.”

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