I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.

I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality read more

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more read more

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.