Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.

I have always thought that great artists were those who dared to confer the right of beauty on things so natural that people say on seeing them, "Why did I never realise before that that was beautiful too?

I have always thought that great artists were those who dared to confer the right of beauty on things so natural that people say on seeing them, "Why did I never realize before that that was beautiful too?

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.