Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.

I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know is that here was the modern human mind at work, spinning symbolism and abstraction in a way that only Homo sapiens is capable of doing.

The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.

The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.

In art, vitality is the chaotic initial state; beauty is the cosmic final state.