Sex and art are the same thing.

The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever.

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.

...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.