Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.

There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual.

The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence. In such moments activity is inevitable, and whether this activity is with brush, pen, chisel, or tongue, its result is but a by-product of the state, a trace, the footprint of the state.

After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.