“Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.”

“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.”

“In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.”

“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”

“I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.”

“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.”

“The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.”

“In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.”

“Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.”

“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.”

“Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.”

“Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.”

“Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.”

“I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.”

“Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.”

“An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.”

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

“If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.”

“I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!”

“History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.”

“Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.”