"

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

"

And if I am not mistaken here is the secret of the greatness that was Spain. In Spain it is men that are the poems, the pictures and the buildings. Me...more

"

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create...more

"

I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

"

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

"

To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults.

"

Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are a million to one against it. It'll be an awful se...more

"

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, ...more

"

A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book or his picture the real m...more

"

He had violent passions, and on occasion desire seized his body so that he was driven to an orgy of lust, but he hated the instincts that robbed him o...more

"

The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more ...more

"

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.