What is art but a way of seeing?...

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.