As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done

Races and religions may have changed, but the marketplace, the living quarters, pilgrimage sites, places of worship, have remained the same. Venus is replaced by the Virgin, but the same life goes on.

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.

I'm not a developer; I am.

Good taste is the enemy of creativity.