"The beautiful is always bizarre."

"Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art."

"The Beautiful is always strange."

"The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished."

"He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!"

"L'étude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu."

"The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief."

"The child sees everything in a state of newness; he is always drunk. Nothing more resembles what we call inspiration than the delight with which a small child absorbs form and colour. Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will - a childhood now equipped for self-expression with manhood's capacities and a power of analysis which enables it to order the mass of raw material which it has involuntarily accumulated."

"he child sees everything in a state of newness; he is always drunk. Nothing more resembles what we call inspiration than the delight with which a small child absorbs form and colour. Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will - a childhood now equipped for self-expression with manhood's capacities and a power of analysis which enables it to order the mass of raw material which it has involuntarily accumulated."

"The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear."