“For isn't the artist by nature a revolutionary?”
“The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.”
“I learned three things in Zurich during the war. I wrote them down. Firstly, you’re either a revolutionary or you’re not, and if you’re not you might as well be an artist as anything else. Secondly, if you can’t be an artist, you might as well be a revolutionary... I forget the third thing.”
“There are things the artist intends, and things the viewer sees, and what the viewer sees isn't always what the artist intends. Isn't always apparent upon first viewing.”
“Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.”
“The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist.”