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

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

Next to the Word of God the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover through the detours of art those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art it's dead for you.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten and the more a picture has to give the greater it is.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Lesser artists borrow great artists steal.