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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes! - 1997.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Colors that blend with the brick and the dark waters of the city's canals - greens, browns and the strong shade of oxblood that is known as Bruges red.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.