Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.

It is peoples movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move how sad would be the tree and so should we.

It is all very well to copy what one sees but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in ones memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists One understands absolutely nothing and its charming.

Art is not what you see but what you make others see.

Drawing is the artists most direct and spontaneous expression. A species of writing it reveals better than does painting his true personality.

Drawing is not the same as form it is a way of seeing form.

Drawing is not what one sees but what one can make others see.

The fascinating thing is not to show the source of light but the effect of light.

The frame is the reward of the artist.

The frame is the pimp of painting it enhances it but it must never shine at the paintings expense.

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

My art became very public.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.