Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say—your professional poets, I mean—there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

If a king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do—that was one of my favorite things about it—and when I first did it, I felt perverse.

Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.

Modesty is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

All art is a revolt against man’s fate.

When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.