Art is not a thing; it is a way.
It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good.
I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.
Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother’s face, her aspect and her attitude.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Paint the essential character of things.
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score, and the print the performance.
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.
I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
Art is the triumph over chaos.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
I think an artist’s responsibility is more complex than people realize.
The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
