The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

I have tried to establish the right to dare everything.

Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.