The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique.

It has taken me years of struggle hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple beautiful sentence.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

As I grew older I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

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.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue but I've done many.

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