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

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?

We are not here to do what has already been done.