“The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.”
“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.”
“An artist is someone who makes art;only artist can create a work of art.”
“I'm an artist. I'm an artist and I'm going to make art! Art arty art art.”
“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit”
“Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.”