All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.