Art is a jealous mistress.

Art is the only thing that can go mattering once as it has stopped hurting.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

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

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.

It has been said that great art is the night thought of man. It may emerge without warning from the soundless depths of the unconscious, just as supernovas may blaze up suddenly in the farther reaches of void space.

In art, as in love, instinct is enough.

Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality and creativeness, and that's un-American somehow.

In the past, traditional art was based on making manifest what is enduring in man, like love, jealousy, hatred, envy, and greed... . Today art has to look again at these unchanging qualities, because society is no longer unchanging. It is up to art today to show us what has become of these unchanging qualities in a world which is moving and changing.