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People expect things from art that are horrible for us who make it! They put the things we make in these restrictive places called 'museums,' then don't want to hear another word from us.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.

Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.