The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.

An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no pornographic intention or effect because "it leaves everything to the imagination." The consumer has to invent his own images, and it is felt, I do not know with what justification, that there is no harm in this.

The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish...

In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted.

Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation.

Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs.

Art is an indecent exposure of the consciousness.

If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.