“Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.”

“The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.”

“Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.”

“There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.”

“I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'”

“Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.”

“Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.”

“Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.”

“Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.”