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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.

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.

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

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

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.

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.

The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

The works of previous artists have come from their own experiences or insights but haven't given the experience itself. They had set themselves up as a sort of interpreter to the layman... Our interest is in a form where you realize that the media are just perception.

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