“All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.”
“All real art is, in its true sense, is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects…Conversely, much great religious art has been written or painted or composed by people who thought they were atheists.”
“Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.”
“...for all art is one, as Kipling has written, and your art chooses you, not you the art.”
“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.”
“Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.”