The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.

The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.