Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.
Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.
A line is a dot that went for a walk.
Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.