
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.