I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.