Helen Hayes

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

We’ll buy some drugs and watch a band and jump in a river holding hands.

Nothing will stop you from being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

There is nothing new… everything has roots in the past.

Mother’s taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it’s right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of…recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it.

Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it’s in them in the first place.

I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival.

If you believe in your art and you love what you do, that energy will go out and people will respond.

Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.