In art, as in love, instinct is enough.

Art is significant deformity.

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.

Art is 90% sex.

The scholar seeks, the artist finds.

The work of art is a part of nature seen through a temperament.

The highest problem in every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality.

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.

Art ... is a force which blows the roof off the cave where we crouch imprisoned.