I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.

Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.

Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.