The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid read more

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith read more

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.

Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.

Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of read more

Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

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

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

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.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.