Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his….

Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he h….

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recogniz….

Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment, pleasure, distast….

I never decided to become an art forger. I was aware of my talent at an early age, and I used it foolishly. This developed over the years. In my hear….

Art civilizes us and it connects us and activates us. And so it's really important to connect with compassion, with stories about people who are diff….

I feel like there’s a space of personal freedom for me where my art-making happens. When I go to that space, I’m completely in this world of possibil….

I feel like what's most important for painting - which has been hierarchically on the top for a really long time in terms of what is considered fine ….

Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day..

The future was and remains the quintessential American art form. Other nations sit back and let their futures happen; we construct ours. We can let t….

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just bec….

As I developed as an artist and studied art history, I noticed that all the great works were dealing with the human condition. [Art] had humor in it.….

All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, ….

Street art is about as religious as I get - that's my faith, that even if people screen it out and didn't think they saw it, they did. Even if it was….

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty..

I see a flower. It gives me a sensation of the beautiful. I wish to paint it. And as soon as I wish to paint it I see the whole subject - flower - ch….

See yonder thin column of smoke curling up through the woods from some invisible farmhouse, the standard raised over some rural homestead.... It is a….

Art is one of the few places where you can put it in a constructive way where it won't burn you up inside or hurt anyone..

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared..

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it..

Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see..