Art is not a handicraft it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Were I called on to define very briefly the term Art I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation however accurate of what is in Nature entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

To an engineer good enough means perfect. With an artist there's no such thing as perfect.

Artists themselves are not confined but their output is.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.