"It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work."
"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."
"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."
"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."
"Light in Nature creates the movement of colors."
"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
"Minimal art went nowhere."
"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea."
"Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist."
"Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums."
"My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process."
"My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art."
"My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see."
"Art is subject to arbitrary fashion."
"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
"Art is the proper task of life."
"Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men."
"Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail."
"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding."
"Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty."
"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."
"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."
"Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies."
"Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is."
"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."
"Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued."
"By the work one knows the workman."