The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

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

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.