In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was painted.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Art is an experience, not an object.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

The main thing is not to be dead.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity – another man’s, I mean.

Just because he was not a monster did not mean he wouldn’t be treated as one.

Your creation was the god's way of showing humans that, the artist in him is still alive.

Life is more important than 'what film I do next.

I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.

Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.

I will never again attempt to tell any young person what to do - the really gifted don't need advice and the others can't take it.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

The best way never to fall is ever to fear.