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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more than an essay or a tract involves the reader, challenges him directly and brings him into the argument.

Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.

Any creation of art is conceived and born under influences, amidst the atmosphere of reverie and the most customary volition of the artist. It is there, in any case, that his work arises from.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

You should be able to be influenced by art no matter where it comes from.