“In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.”

“I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.”

“Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.”

“The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?”

“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.”

“Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.”

“The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.”

“Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.”

“Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.”

“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”

“Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.”

“Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.”

“Art is not a thing it is a way.”

“Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”

“Trying to force creativity is never good.”

“In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.”

“I think about my work every minute of the day.”

“Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”

“All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.”

“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.”