The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.

I already have a wife, who is too much for me; one who keeps me unceasingly struggling on. It is my art, and my works are my children.

No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.

When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of works of art and of "artists."

The trend toward pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence- just art with no other pretenses.