[A]rt can never give the rules that make an art.

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

Art is purposiveness without purpose.

[T]here are no rules in painting and.. ..the oppression, or servile obligation, of making all study or follow the same path is a great impediment for the Young who profess this very difficult art that approaches the divine more than any other.

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.

There is no purity in art. The process of how you arrive at something doesn't matter at all.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

If there is no God, no devil, no heaven, no hell then therefore there are no rules.

In Art we know nothing for certain.

Art must break the chains, all rules and formulas.

Art teaches nothing except the significance of life.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn't exist.

Rules have no existence outside of individuals: otherwise a good professor would be as great a genius as Racine.

There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.