Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.