art Quotes

I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary.

I want to be a machine.

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

Sociological critics are waste makers.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.