My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.
Time extracts various values from a painter’s work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art’s audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
There hasn’t been any art yet. Art is just beginning.
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
In art, the obvious is a sin.
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
My love of fine art increased – the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
That’s the motivation of an artist – to seek attention of some kind.
An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
I’m not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don’t tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one’s imagination.
I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.
Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
Even a true artist does not always produce art.
The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.
