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

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints in both an homage and a critique, and everything he says is a gloss.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

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.