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.

Great art changes you.

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.

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.