The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great, individual men. One might point out how Louis XIV, by creating the modern state, destroyed the individualism of the artist.

Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!

Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.