Art has got nothing to do with taste.

The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.

Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

I have never seen a beautiful painting of a beautiful woman. But you can take an ugly woman and make a beautiful painting of her. It is the painting itself that should be beautiful.

Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted

Art has got nothing to do with taste.