The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.
Francisco Jose De Goya Y Lucientes
Affectations can be dangerous.
Gertrude Stein
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
Max Jacob
The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own.
Leo Stein
I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
Henri Matisse
The painting is complete when the idea is obliterated.
Georges Braque
I try to make concrete that which is abstract.
Juan Gris
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
Andre Breton
Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
Guillaume Apollinaire
We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
Alfred Jarry
"My music is best understood by children and animals."
Igor Stravinsky
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
Jean Cocteau
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
Joseph Stalin
Many people do not reach their eighties because they try to stay in their forties too long.
Salvador Dali
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.
Henri De Toulouse Lautrec
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Edvard Munch
...and what shall I love if not the enigma.
Giorgio de Chirico
If I had to put a sign over my door, I would write "School of Drawing" and I'm certain that I would create painters.
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.