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The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

Artists do not make objects. Artists make mythologies.

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others do not dare reveal.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

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

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

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

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

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.