"Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men"

"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook"

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage"

"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art"

"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you"

"Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths"

"Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest"

"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization"

"Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time"

"It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least"

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication"