“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.”

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

“Art is anything you can get away with.”

“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.”