Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

Art isn't something you marry, it's something you rape.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

It's not what you see that is art, art is the gap.

Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.

The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.