“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
“What’s the impulse behind art? It’s saying in whatever language is the language of your work...
If I could move you as much as it moved me … if I can move anyone a tenth as much as that moved me, if I can spark the same sense of mystery and awe and surprise as that sparked in me, well that’s why I do what I do.
What art does — maybe what it does most completely — is tell us, make us feel that what we think we know, we don’t.”
