“What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”

“The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.”

“Experience has two things to teach: The first is that we must correct a great deal the second that we must not correct too much.”

“We work not only to produce but to give value to time.”

“If one considered life as a simple loan one would perhaps be less exacting.”

“Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”