Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.

To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

Art is an experience, not an object.

The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain.