The photographer does the world a great disservice when he leaves his camera at home.

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life’s experience.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

But you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude.

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

Let beauty be your end. Why should you mint beauty into gold? Anyway, you can’t;

Photography is not art It s pressing buttons People take it up because they can t draw

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

Whether keenly striking or laughably awful, contemporary art is rarely unentertaining.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

The photographer does the world a great disservice when she leaves her camera at home.