A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand as if it were necessary to understand when it is simply necessary to love.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

History develops art stands still.

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.

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

One does not need buildings money power or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing and that is the place to train.

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and whilst abroad underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.