It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.
There is more power in telling little than in telling all.
A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.
This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.
With us the disguise must be complete. The familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite associations with which our society increasingly enshrouds every aspect of our environment.