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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.

Behind unfinished art cries an unfinished artist.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is.

Art is the struggle to understand.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.

Art is a kind of illness

A great artist is always before his time or behind it

A man and his art are like a fool and his king.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.