“Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.”
“Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.”
“Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.”
“The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.”
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
“If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.”
“The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.”
“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”
“The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.”
“If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.”
“The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.”
“Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.”
“Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.”
“The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure”
“Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.”
“The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.”
“Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.”
“The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.”
“The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.”
“An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.”
“Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.”
“Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.”
“It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.”
“There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.”
“The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]”
“A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.”
“Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.”
“The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.”
“What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.”
“The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.”