“All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.”

“A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.”

“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.”

“The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.”

“[Art is] a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.”

“Why there are so many great actresses, so few great woman writers? The erotic urge that lies at the bottom of all art has a feminine and a masculine character. Feminine is the urge to be; masculine the urge to do. Interpretative art always has more of the feminine about it”

“All art is quite useless.”

“For art to be art it has to cure.”

“Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.”

“I also found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to all kinds of unorthodox expression, all kinds of daring in the handling of materials, and I preferred to surround myself with this type of art than with the great collectors' pieces.”