“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”

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

“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”

“Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”

“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality and eventually in one's own.”

“Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other peop...”

“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.”

“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”

“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.”

“We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful...”

“The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.”

“Art is anything you can get away with.”