“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.”

“Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”

“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.”

“Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.”

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”

“The history of art is the history of revivals.”

“O, had I but followed the arts!”

“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.”

“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.”

“When artists make art, they shouldn’t question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.”

“I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists.”

“An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.”

“The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.”

“A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.”

“But I’m not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.”