The main thing is not to be dead.

In printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception ... to try, with sensitivity to the medium to emphasize what printing can do best ... better than say, painting or collaging or watercolour or drawing or whatever ... Otherwise, the artist expresses the same vision in graphics that he does in his other work.

If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two times-but never three.

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

The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.

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

Wherever art appears, life disappears.