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I am an anarchist in politics , an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I underst , what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.

I don’t owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephantand the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.