I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I’ve done many.
We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.
Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools – only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.
Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
Painting and writing are solitary arts.
I’ve never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn’t made money with it.
When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Riding a race bike is an art – a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
