Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
Art Quotes
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.
Never, never be an artist If you think you can make one cent; Never, never be an artist If there’s no one to pay your rent; Never, never be an artist If you like roast beef called “prime;” Never, never be an artist – Unless – You want to have a marvelous time.
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
If your friend says of some picture, “Yes, but what does it mean?” ask him, what his carpet means or the circular patterns on his shoes.
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world.
I have only too much of a wife in this art of mine, who has always kept me in tribulation, and my children shall be the works I leave, which, even if they are naught, will live for a while. (on why he hadn’t married and started a family)
Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
The artist picks up the message of cultural and technological challenge decades before its transforming impact occurs. He then builds models or Noah’s arks for facing the challenge at hand.
