Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.