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I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else.

As long as artists arbitrarily assume the right to decide what is or is not art, it is logical that the public will just as arbitrarily feel that they have the right to reject it.

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.