Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who is right?

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

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.

Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.