“It’s clever, but is it Art?”

“What is art but a way of seeing?”

“An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.”

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

“Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.”

“Things are beautiful if you love them.”

“Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.”

“An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.”

“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”

“I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.”

“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.”

“I cry out for order and find it only in art.”

“Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.”

“What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.”

“A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.”