“I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I’ve done many.”

“It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.”

“Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.”

“Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?”

“I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.”

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

“Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.”

“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.”

“In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.”

“I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.”

“Great artists suffer for the people.”

“Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.”

“In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.”

“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.”

“An art book is a museum without walls.”