The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

Art cannot result from sophisticated frivolous or superficial effects.

Our individual lives cannot generally be works of art unless the social order is also.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock a flower the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two it's bad art.

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocrite and flatterer for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.