Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.

Actions speak louder than words, in fact. When we don't take action, we foster the mistaken reality of our old identity.

To know how to avoid the cliche, to know what tradition you are pushing forward, begins with knowing what that tradition is.

Contemporary' was in those days [1953] synonymous with 'modern' as it had not been before and is not now [1977].

The more successful the work, the more people will step in to try to influence and manipulate the work for their own benefit.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.

You guys are just standing up because you feel bad that I fell down at her acceptance speech as Best actor(F) at Oscars 2013

All of you have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.

Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock.

It would be both an identical work of art only by virtue of its difference. The same but different, he suggested, like twins.

...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us all that we are more alike than we are unlike.

Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who you are.

I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.