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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

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

Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.