The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

Please do not understand me too quickly.

It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.