One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech
Rembrandt painted about 700 pictures - of these, 3,000 are in existence.
Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.
Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted.
The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.
The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.
The object of art is to give life a shape.
The scholar seeks, the artist finds.
The song of the brush.
Theatre takes place all the time wherever one is and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.
Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donnee: Our criticisms apply only to what he makes of it.
When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David."
Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.
Art is I, science is we.
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined, out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
Designers and free lance artists and editors can set their hourly rates by dividing their annual income needs by 1000.