The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.

You attract what you need like a lover

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.