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The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled with words. They outlast all others.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment in my life when I thought I wanted to be anything else.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To express something well is not a question of having a top-class education and understanding poetic forms: rather, it's a question of paying attention.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Every good painter paints what he is.