Content may by trivial. But I do not think that any person may pronounce either upon the weight or upon the triviality of an idea before its execution.

An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.

If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.

I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.

Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.

It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a great many devoted art lovers to rout.

The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness

Wisdom is an ornament of grace to the soul.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

Moscow is simply unwilling to recognize the right of self-determination of nations.

Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet?

Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your life.

Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout.

All those things they say about a baby changing your perspective - it does!

I believe in fate, I believe in hard work, and I feel like if I just keep marching, the path will kind of appear before me.