Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.

Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself to the agonies of the damned...undaunted by failure, by an unceasing effort of courage holding despair at bay, doggedly persistent in the face of self-doubt, which is the artist's bitterest enemy...

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.