Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.

Each period of a civilisation creates an art that is specific in it and which we will never see reborn. To try and revive the principles of art of past centuries can lead only to the production of stillborn works.

The eyes are hammers.

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy the "quality of painting" (as one enjoys a pasty). But hungry souls go hungry away. The vulgar herd stroll through the rooms and pronounce the pictures "nice" or "splendid." Those who could speak have said nothing, those who could hear have heard nothing.

To create a work of art is to create the world.