The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

Life is short, the art long.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.