We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.

Art, for most Americans, is a very queer fish-it can't be reasoned with, it can't be bribed, it can't be doped out or duplicated; above all, it can't be cashed in on.

The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness.

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists, the small trumpet of your defiance.

There is a way of being an artist that goes so deep and is so much a matter of origins and destinies that no longing seems to it sweeter and more worth knowing than longing after the bliss of the commonplace.

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought-these are the artist's highest joy.

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, deprecating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.