If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries.

Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.

...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.

I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw a human face if I don't know what's going on his mind and heart. In order to paint life one must understand not only anatomy, but what people feel and think about the world they live in. The painter who knows his own craft and nothing else will turn out to be a very superficial artist.

The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]