The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

In art, the obvious is a sin.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

Art is science made clear.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illumination.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

Art must take reality by surprise.

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Insight is the first condition of Art.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

Art is anything people do with distinction.

My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.