The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.

[Kandinsky] arrived, as they say, 'with snow on his boots', and it never really melted.

How are his poems?""He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.

Kids are real artists. They’d rather paint the outside of the box than being stuck inside.

The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't

How much distance should there be between art and artist? I’d say no more than a lifetime.

Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

His mindIt says survival of the fittest butHis soulRevival of the idiotsSo good riddance, dancing

The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.

She simply converted an average face into beautiful face and a beautiful face into an angelic face.

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]

A human being is a real artist and a creative in any field, not a programmed robot in some factory.

An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.