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If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.

I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and a soul and want to touch people and give.

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.

If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.