The job of art is to turn time into things.

Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.

When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise

Art is a path on which we honour our world.

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless.

Canned reference is practically always loaded with problems. Photos, for example, contrive to kill imagination and stifle the natural development of creative patterns. While "ready-mades" do show up from time to time, they are rare. Art need not be what is seen-but what is to be seen. "Nature," said James McNeill Whistler, "is usually wrong."