The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re created Europe in his own image.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.