Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

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

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

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.