“The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.”

“Life is short, the art long.”

“Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.”

“Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.”

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”

“If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.”

“I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.”

“The work of art is a scream of freedom.”

“All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.”

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

“The perfection of art is to conceal art.”

“Art must take reality by surprise.”

“Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.”

“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.”

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