a new system of decoration, and . . . a poetic fantasy in the creation of the art object.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.