Truth exists in art.
Good art will speak to you if you give it a chance.
One of the things about creativity is you can be in denial about these things. When I found out I had cancer, there were four hours in which I was pounding my head on the marble kitchen top saying, “I can’t believe it, I can’t believe it.” But then I felt as if this little army in uniform was flooding me. They had come to help me fight it. I felt really strong about it after that. It was one of the strongest periods of my life.
The essence of all Art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
Art is constant tension and release. That is where artists live, between the two or at times, submerged in either.
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 think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.
The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.
What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What’s left of the man when the work’s done but a shambles of apology.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
