Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.

All art has this characteristic-it unites people.

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feeling to which men have risen.

...such distortions, such aberrations, deformations, alterations of reality that, if you will, they must end up as lies-but as lies that have more truth in them than literal truth.

All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

It's not a question of liking. One is moved or not moved.

Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.