Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

All art is quite useless.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Art is a form of catharsis.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.