Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness: nothing but faith – faith always, and freedom. [L’Art ne réclame ni complaisance ni politesse, rien que la foi, la foi toujours et la liberté.]
Art raises its head where creeds relax.[Die Kunst erhebt ihr Haupt, wo die Religionen nachlassen.]
Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
Art never expresses anything but itself.
Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.[Искусство поднимает человека из личной жизни в жизнь всеобщую посредством.]
Art is with us in order that we may not perish through truth.[Wir haben die Kunst, damit wir nicht an der Wahrheit zugrunde gehen.]
Art is the only task of life.[Die Kunst als die eigentliche Aufgabe des Lebens.]
Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.
Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one’s self from enslavement by the earth.
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.
Art is only a way of expressing pain.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.
