No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.

The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.

America knows nothing of food, love, or art.

I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food, love or art.

These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.