“To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil.”
“It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.”
“This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.”
“In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.”
“Modern art = I could do that + Yeah, but you didn't.”