Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
All great art is born of the metropolis.
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
Every artist was first an amateur.
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
All art is but imitation of nature.
Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
I never know what I’m going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I’m just the middleman.
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
