The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated something is wrong.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

Good artists copy great artists steal.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe the elephant and the cat. He has no real style He just goes on trying other things.