The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart.

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.