Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know.
Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.
i am a museum full of art but you had your eyes shut
A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun
When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.
The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
One eye sees, the other feels.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.