If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: "I am here to live out loud."

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.

Once form has been smashed, it has been smashed for good, and once a forbidden subject has been released, it has been released for good.

A woman artist must be ... capable of making the primary sacrifices.

Art and family life are reconcilable if it's worth it-which is to say, if you act out of conviction and not just convention or a sense of obligation.

The artist is the only lover; he alone has the pure vision of beauty, and love is the vision of the soul when it is permitted to gaze upon immortal beauty.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love-to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the wrorld of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape measures, spectrographs, or flash camera lens.

The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't it just as real as any other natural phenomenon? The artist justifies his existence only when he can transform his imagination into truth.