If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two times-but never three.
The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain.
Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
I feel most real to myself in the studio.
The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.