“Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse”

“The history of art is the history of revivals”

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

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

“The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.”

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life ”