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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Are we to paint what’s on the face, what’s inside the face, or what’s behind it?

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.

From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

Even if you can’t draw, do a little doodle or rip an illustration from a magazine – these visuals will help bring your idea to life.