The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not an act of defiance against mans fall and an assertion that he return to the Garden of Eden? For the artists are the first men.

We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.

Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.