Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the stronger for being constrained, controlled and compressed.

It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be regretted that a nation should lose two or three hundred thousand in raising a ridiculous building.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.