Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.
Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.
We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.
The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.
I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.
What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not an act of defiance against mans fall and an assertion that he return to the Garden of Eden? For the artists are the first men.