Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

No two cities have counted more with mankind than Athens and Jerusalem. Their messages in religion, philosophy, and art have been the main guiding lights of modern faith and culture.

Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature. It is always best to have recourse to nature, which is replete with such abundance of objects, than to the productions of other masters, who learnt everything from her.

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.