I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.

Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye.

Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

If you want to change your art, change your habits.

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.

You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye.

The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.

When you don't like something the words come more readily.

With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait.

The moment you stop worrying about success is when success will happen.

Good historians...have the future in their bones

Our decisions are influenced by our beliefs and this is why we say our reality is what we believe in.

Your ultimate reason for staying in this crooked world is not to imitate its devastating physique, but trying do something about its ugly appearance.

You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.

Researchers have found that identical twins who have been separated for long periods of time actually invest in a similar manner. Biology really does affect how we spend money.

Why is everything that is bad for me feel so good?

The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are.

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.