“Art destroys the life.”
“Art cannot be bought or sold. It can only be created or destroyed.”
“D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee!" -D'Artagnan”
“O Rose, thou art sick.The invisible wormThat flies in the nightIn the howling stormHas found out thy bedOf crimson joy,And his dark secret loveDoes thy life destroy.”
“Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.”
“The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.”