Quotes in Art

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

What we play is life.

[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

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 the sun.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.