No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.

An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part.

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.