“The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.”
“To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and constantly to express, to press out again, from the gross earth or what it brings forth, from sound and shape and colour which are the prison gates of our soul, an image of the beauty we have come to understand—that is art.”
“In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.”
“Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.”
“Favouritism is a bad action. All know that by heart, but most use it. It is a contagious action. You have to fight against yourself in order not to utilize it.”
“Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid these may be... I see it as the clearest evidence of genius when an artist follows his conception, his idea, his principle, so unswervingly that he has this truth of his constantly in his control, never letting go of it even for the sake of his own enjoyment of his work.”
“..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.”
“Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.”
“If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.”
“It becomes easy to express your pain if you are an artist. But what if you re a regular person, how will you find a way to express yourself?”
“Art lights up the world.”
“Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of the box looks like as well. Those who are best at thinking outside the box do it not to puff themselves up, but to see how small they really are. As a contented fish in its fish tank appears to have a small, boring existence to us, imagine a larger, more perceptive kingdom (even by scientific taxonomy) to whom our contented existences may appear to be small and boring. This is where true creativity and massive perceptive abilities spawn a sense of intellectual humility; the kind which God adores.”
“Rome seems a comfort to those with the ambitious soul of an Artist or a Conqueror.”
“It s the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it. Andy Warhol”
“Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?”
“Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.”
“Her body is one big refrigerator, where Art is well stored.”