“Sex and art are the same thing.”

Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is.

The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.

Everything you can imagine is real.

The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.

A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder.

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

The world doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

It takes a long time to become young.

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That’s the only way he will do original work.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

My view is that I love what I make so who cares what everyone else thinks. Make art for yourself first, and other people second.

Politics is the art of the possible.

I always make music as an art – it’s never been a product for me.

You would be so proud of me, if you knew of all the ways i’ve turnt my pain into art.

All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.

Look at people like an unfinished work of art. Allow them to change, allow them to grow.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.