Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.

I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light.

I know I will always be attracted to the unknown as it does often verify what I am or what else I could be.

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out.

Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without ‘Art’ is just ‘Eh

Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without ‘Art’ is just ‘Eh

Whoever uses the spirit that isin him creatively is an artist. Tomake living itself an art, that isthe goal.

...Michelangelo transformed both the practice of art and our conception of the artist's role in society.

But creation (art) is internally unshapable. Some can't see 'past' but strictly testimony. 

I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting.

I think serious art is supposed to make us confront things that are difficult in ourselves and in the world.

There is always a commanding and simple line around each head. Learn to have a love for the big simple line.

I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.

The end will be what it will be. The object is intense living, fulfillment; the great happiness in creation.