“To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.”

“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.”

“My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.”

“Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.”

“The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.”

“The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.”

“The best artists know what to leave out.”

“I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.”

“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.”

“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.”

“Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.”

“Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.”

“The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.”

“That’s why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.”

“The photograph itself doesn’t interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.”