That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.
I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
I ate a pound cake today, but I gained two.
When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.
Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
When you forget everything, there only remains yourself - and that is not enough.
I'm not interested in how people move, but what moves them.
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.
As an artist, you do understand you're never going to please everybody.
Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.
He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.
Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.
Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.
