Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Every artist was first an amateur.

O, had I but followed the arts!

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves ''It's pretty, but is it Art?''

Art is science made clear.