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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.