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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

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

The reality is that art has often risen to greater heights than the people who created it. Many flawed artists have created great works of art. You have to decide if you are going to listen to Richard Wagner's music or not because he was very anti-Semitic.

Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what people make of it.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.