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

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.

I don’t work from nature, I work like nature.

Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

I do not seek. I find.

I don’t work from nature, I work like nature.

Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

I do not seek. I find.

Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

I am not a businessman, I am an artist.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

You have to do everything possible to win no matter what.

Haters will broadcast your failures, but whisper your success.

Your brand name is only as good as your reputation.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.