“Art is science made clear.”

“The knack is art.”

“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.”

“Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.”

“An artist cannot speak about his art anymore than a plant can discuss horticulture.”

“When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because we see clearly. A little later, intelligence introduces its impeding contrivances. It brings the little toys which man invents in order to hide the void. It is then that we think we are seeing clearly. We attribute our uneasiness to the miasmas of the brain as it passes from dream to reality.”

“Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”