A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.

Le dessin n'est pas la forme, il est la maniere de voir la forme.

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong wi…

Il faut avoir une haute idee, non pas de ce qu'on fait, mais de ce qu'on pourra faire un jour; sans quoi ce n'est pas la peine de travailler.

Instinct and study; love and hate; Audacity-reverence. These must mate, And fuse with Jacob's mystic heart, To wrestle with the angel-Art.

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired …