“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.”
“The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.”
“To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.”
“The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.”
“Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.”
“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.”
“I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.”
“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.”
“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”
“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”
“Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.”
“This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.”
“Any artist should be grateful for a nanve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.”
“The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.”
“One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.”
“Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?”
“The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.”
“Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.”
“As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.”
“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.”
“Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.”
“Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.”
“The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.”
“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.”
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.”
“The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.”
“Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.”
“Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.”
“The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.”
“Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.”