Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

All art is quite useless.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.