Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is read more

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

I paint with shapes.

I paint with shapes.

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the read more

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to read more

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.