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The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

I always think that art is a form of sacrifice.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.