Normal people do not create art.

He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I can't buy my own pictures,' he murmured aloud. 'Then I'd be completely self-sufficient.'

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.

An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.