Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.

Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art or his art or the artist part of him than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience a thought.

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic there's a commercial world around it: the ballet opera any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

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

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.