“Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.”

“Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.”

“Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.”

“The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing museums are scaling back.”

“I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.”

“The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.”

“Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.”

“In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.”

“Those who love him love that he sells the most art they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.”