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An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher.

I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.