As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.