Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.

An art book is a museum without walls.

Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.