Art Quotes
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
I like things that give you those feelings all in one package - sadness and humor and horror.
How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and uses only his reason; he argues carefully step by step, and needs no imagination. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers.
Science and art belong to the world, and the barriers of nationality vanish before them.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art`s aim.
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.