I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion.
Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.
I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.
The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.
Great art picks up where nature ends.
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.
