“Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.”

“Nature is the art of God.”

“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.”

“If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”

“I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.”

“Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”

“To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.”

“Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.”

“You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.”