Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.
I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.
I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.
No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.