I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

... does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!

If I had my will, I would live in a ship on the sea and never come nearer to humanity than that!

I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.

Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.

Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five links on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.

All that I have to offer as an artist is the revelation of my soul