We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.
The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman.
I had been thinking about rubber all along. Like as the novel's element, or base material. A lot of artists in the late '60s and early '70s worked with rubber and other forms that seemed like they connoted industrial detritus. Robert Morris, Eva Hesse.
A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy.
Not only must you be an artist, must you be generous, and must you be able to see where you can help but you must also be aware. Aware of where your skills are welcomed.
[To be an artist,] this desire to conquer all with images.
The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.
Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.
I've always said I've got the coolest fans, and I brag about you like grandchildren when I talk to other artists
Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
I think it's possible to allow an artist to go beyond his borders and play.
The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.
The anarchist philosophy is that the new social order is to be built up by groupings of men together in communities - whether in communities of work or communities of culture or communities of artists - but in communities.
There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master paintings.
The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.
As an artist you're on a journey of discovery and sometimes that journey takes a long time, doesn't subscribe to [a] train schedule, to the punch-clock. And I need to read a lot to make my pages happen.
Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
An artist reveals his naked soul in his work.
I love being able to be the artist of the whole picture, as opposed to just one of the brushes.