At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.