One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.

Art must take reality by surprise.

I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.

All art is based on non-conformity.

God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul.

Art is the signature of civilizations.