Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.

We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art...what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered. I think I don't regret a single "excess" of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

“Living together is an art. It's a patient art, it's a beautiful art, it's fascinating.” 

Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

“The power of any art is limited” 

I have too much product, and I'm trying to rein it in and sell more of my main collection. I wish you didn't have to design so often; it would be good if you could keep on selling the same things for a few years and not have to do new things all the time.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

“My task is to find the authenticity in the character. I tend to go with the script and tell that story.”

“The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.” 

What is your art? To be good. And how is this accomplished well except by general principles, some about the nature of the universe, and others about the proper constitution of man?

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

Art demands only immediate, honest and whole-hearted action.

Through art our own souls are what we must employ to give a new form and a new meaning to Nature or the world.

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity – art has no ego rigidity.

Art is really the expression of the self. The more complicated and restricted the method, the less the opportunity for the expression of one’s original sense of freedom.

Art is the perfection of nature and life through the artist, who has supreme control of technique and is thereby liberated from it.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

Art is an expression of life and transcends both time and space.