“The artist who becomes thoroughly aware consequently ceases to be one.”

“The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one’s thoughts to cease to be aware of life.”

“Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.”

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

“One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.”

“A creative artist works on his next composition because he is not satisfied with his previous one. When he loses a critical attitude toward his own work, he ceases to be an artist.”

“The composer who is frightened of losing his artistic integrity through contact with a mass audience is no longer aware of the meaning of the word art.”

“I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.”

“One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier.”

“Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence. Now the sole reason why painters of this sort are not aware of their own error is that they have not learnt Geometry, without which no one can either be or become an absolute artist; but the blame for this should be laid upon their masters, who are themselves ignorant of this art.”