“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”

“The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.”

“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.”

“Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.”

“I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.”

“The goal of art was the vital expression of self.”

“A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.”

“I think about my work every minute of the day.”

“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”

“My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.”

“There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.”

“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”

“If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.”

“The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.”