I couldn't get used to the community and social life of a theatrical set designer.

The performance on the stage has its reasons in the performance induced in thousands of separate minds and this second performance is no less prodigious than the first.

I don't want to think that I am going to believe that I am a hell of a genius, or anything like that.

I never lost the taste and craft of the Renaissance.

I haven't even ever wanted to distort. I isolate and represent.

All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just like life does.

An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies.