“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”

“Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.”

“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”

“Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.”

“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”

“The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.”

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”

“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted”

“The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.”

“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”

“Artists are the antennae of the race but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.”

“Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.”