We're actually doing something scripted that's totally, you know, we kind of know what's going on, however, we're having to live life and death as the art.

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.