Were I called on to define very briefly the term Art I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation however accurate of what is in Nature entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

To an engineer good enough means perfect. With an artist there's no such thing as perfect.

Artists themselves are not confined but their output is.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

The writer when he is also an artist is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

The artist belongs to his work not the work to the artist.

Lesser artists borrow great artists steal.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty you know you're an artist.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

I've been called many names like perfectionist difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.