Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.

Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. It prepares an artist to choose his own limitations.

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.