Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
Great art picks up where nature ends.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
My hand is the extension of the thinking process – the creative process.
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts – absolute gifts – which have not been acquired by one’s own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
Art is anything people do with distinction.
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
My painting does not come from the easel.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
I paint with shapes.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It’s about making the best kind of image I can make, it’s about talking as clearly as I can.
