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There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

Art is not meant to change the world.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Art seduces, but does not exploit.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

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.

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