Good art bristles with razor blades.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Good artists copy. Great artists steal.

Every child is an artist. It's a challenge to remain an artist when you grow up.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't m…

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we read…

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.