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I would say being deeply involved in the art world would help keep a young artist on track. Doing what you love, so that your focus is your artistry.

If a man becomes more mature due to certain episodes in his life, it gives him the opportunity to look at life in a much more deep way. I believe the artist and the man work parallel, with the same feelings, the same soul, the same sensitivity.

The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice. If he is great enough, he will exalt every subject which he treats.

If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have never met such a man.

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

I love artists that just do what they do with so much passion and emotion.

I think possibly, as an artist, you're always treated with a certain respect but also with a certain sort of nervousness.

I love what Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh and Jesus all said - that love is really the driving principle of the creative act. In fact, they would say that great art is always inspired by love.

Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.