Quotes

The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul.

The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated.

It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know,

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

All influence is immoral—immoral from the scientific point of view.

To define is to limit.

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

All art is at once surface and symbol.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things.