I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but read more

The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but as a source of inspiration. And it usually manages, one way or another, to turn up in his product.

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates read more

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason read more

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.