As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.