“Less is more.”

“Art depends on luck and talent.”

“Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.”

“The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.”

“I start a picture and I finish it.”

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

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

“Art is the daughter of freedom.”

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”

“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.”

“Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?”

“Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.”

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

“The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.”

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