In art, as in love, instinct is enough.

I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know is that here was the modern human mind at work, spinning symbolism and abstraction in a way that only Homo sapiens is capable of doing.

The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.

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.

The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.

In art, vitality is the chaotic initial state; beauty is the cosmic final state.

Purity of life is the highest and truest art.

When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle.