Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

Modern art has to be what is called ‘intense.’ it is not easy to define being intense; but, roughly speaking, it means saying only one thing at a time, and saying it wrong.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

I am sure that it was only because Michael Angelo was engaged in the ancient and honourable occupation of lying in bed that he ever realised how the roof of the Sistine Chapel might be made into an awful imitation of a divine drama that could only be acted in the heavens.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.