“Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.”

“The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.”

“It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.”

“A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.”

“The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.”

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”

“I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.”

“I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.”

“The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.”

“Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.”

“When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.”

“Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.”

“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.”

“Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.”

“The perfection of art is to conceal art.”

“Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.”

“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”

“Of all lies, art is the least untrue.”

“'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'”

“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”

“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”