We believe in the art of war. We are trying to get our competition to attack us with angry, virulent energy, so we can transform that into larger mar….

It is not the style but the quality and emotional impact of work that makes it marketable. Unless we make art that connects with people, we won't sel….

I'm very tolerant of other art and other artists. But what I truly appreciate, what I truly admire in contemporary art, is work that takes on more th….

Collectors are paying for our education by purchasing our art..

I was quite naïve, a boy from Southport. When I went to art college in Leeds, I lived in a basement flat, and I heard clunking on the stairs all nigh….

I'm so immersed in my little world that I don't often sit back and pay attention to what's going on around me. It truly stuns me when people recogniz….

In spite of everything, there is still no more wonderful vocation than to continue to tolerate events and to work on in the name of our mission, in t….

Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious..

I do feel that the world is entering into a period of the incredible period of reflection and introspection. A lot of people are questioning the futu….

Great art picks up where nature ends..

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more..

I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people or directo….

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing..

The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and positive significance in the life ….

Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form..

Changes in societal structure and in art would possess more credibility if they had their origins in the soul and spirit. If people read the words of….

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it.

You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color..

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the pai….

Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched..

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. All souls are sacred, the soul of all the bipeds in every quarter of the globe..