“The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.”

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.”

“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”

“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”

“It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.”

“Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.”

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.”

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”

“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”

“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.”

“Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.”

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.”

“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.”

“To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.”