“Art like life is an open secret.”

“The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you...”

“Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.”

“The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values. ”

“I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.”

“He hablado de la inutilidad del arte, pero no he dicho la verdad sobre el consuelo que procura.”

“Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.”