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Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.

The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell.

Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.