Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Art happens - no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring read more

Art happens - no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

Art is long, life is short. —Ars longa, vita brevis

Art is long, life is short. —Ars longa, vita brevis

Art always has something of the unconscious about it.

Art always has something of the unconscious about it.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if read more

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.