"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs."
"Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence."
"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."
"Even a true artist does not always produce art."
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
"Every artist was first an amateur."
"Every artist writes his own autobiography."
"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."
"Every good painter paints what he is."
"Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art."
"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product."
"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul."
"Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul."
"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse."
"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together."
"Great art picks up where nature ends."
"I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need."
"I cry out for order and find it only in art."
"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands."
"A painting that is well composed is half finished."
"A picture is a poem without words."
"A picture is worth a thousand words."
"A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds."
"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
"A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears."
"Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century."
"Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century."
"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography."
"All art is but imitation of nature."
