A picture has been said to be something between a thing and a thought.

Art is a form of catharsis.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

...nature and art are two different things. Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

There is no abstract art. You must always begin with something.

A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.

Every young artist has to do it one way, his way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you are and what you're doing. Nobody else can do anything for you and you really wouldn't want them to anyway. And never take advice, including this.

(Art is) the reasoned derangement of the senses.

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.