The artist is a constructor of mirrors through which humanity can recognize their own beauty.

Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.

Snow on one side of the canvas, silence on the other. I’d call that a perfect painting.

The lonesome and desperate kids out there, that pain will translate to magic perhaps.

It does not matter where one comes from, one can achieve even the greatest of things in life.

While industrialists make products in the factory many brands are created in the minds of PRs

Critics are people who hated Mickey Mouse when they were children- if they ever were children

The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.

Look deeply at yourself, and see in yourself the divine architect's incomprehensible art!

Real artist cannot be blackmailed. I suspect they've been confessing shit all their life.

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few preparedto learn to draw?

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

…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

The way Starr felt in church, that's how I felt at the art museum, both safe and elevated.