“Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.”
“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
“Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.”
“Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.”
“The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.”
“This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.”
“Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.”
“One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.”
“Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.”
“No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.”
“Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.”
“Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.”
“Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.”
“A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.”
“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.”
“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”
“In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.”
“Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.”
“The art of creation is older than the art of killing.”
“Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.”
“Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.”
“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.”
“I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”
“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.”