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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

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

Painting is easy when you do not know how, but very difficult when you do.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

In art the best is good enough.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

I am afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

All art is but imitation of nature.