The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
An empty canvas is full.
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
All art is dependent on technology because it’s a human endeavour, so even when you’re using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that’s technology.
Insight is the first condition of Art.
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
One eye sees, the other feels.
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
The goal of art was the vital expression of self.
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
What I didn’t know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
I don’t think there’s any artist of any value who doesn’t doubt what they’re doing.
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
There is nothing new in art except talent.
