Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make haste to remove them from the Louvre. True, we are trying more and more to gauge the feelings of those first spectators, but without forgetting our own, and we can be contented all the more easily with the mere knowledge of the former, without experiencing them, because all we wish to do is put this knowledge to the work of art.

Il n'y a pas cinquante manieres de combattre, il n'y en a qu'une, c'est d'etre vainqueur. Ni la revolution ni la guerre ne consistent a se plaire a soi-meme.

A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art m…

One cannot create an art that speaks to me when one has nothing to say.

When you put the corset on it gives you a glimpse into what those women's lives must have been like, a little bit. Just the fact that they did that to themselv…

We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to f…

Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.